Society of Hospital Medicine Annual Meeting

The quality of information about patients who were transferred from one hospital to another was often “suboptimal” and affected patient care, according to researchers.

The number of inpatients with a penicillin allergy label at a children’s hospital approached 9%, according to results from a retrospective chart review presented at SHM Converge — the virtual meeting of the Society of Hospital Medicine.

A hospital intervention designed to raise awareness of naloxone and remove prescribing barriers was associated with a 584% increase in prescriptions among patients at high risk for an opioid overdose, according to recent research.