Table 1.
PoD Interventions – Detail
| Physician on Duty Intervention1 | # of Cases | Data Inclusion Criteria (7/1/2019-6/31/2020) |
|---|---|---|
| Prevent Lost Case | 26 | Patient would have been lost to the system without direct physician on duty intervention. Usually, patients were kept in the system by facilitating improved medical staff communication. |
| Create Tertiary Capacity | 1,423 Bed Days 7.4 Virtual Beds | Identify and reroute patients who do not have a tertiary need to facilities with beds and nurses to care for them (with patient consent). |
| Create Strategic Bed | 205 | In overcrowded facility with patients boarding and on the wait list, physician negotiates appropriate downgrades to make space for waiting patients. |
| Patient Safety | 142 | Critical patient safety event, addressed in real time by the physician on duty. |
| Covid-19 Patient Cohort Project | 43 | Actual patient transfers from system hospitals to cohorting hospital facilitated by PoD daily review and facilitation. |
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To avoid bias, all intervention counts were vetted separately with two different reviewers and confirmed in the EMR to the extent possible.