Abstracts from the 2023 Annual Meeting of the Society of General Internal Medicine.

B DESCRIPTION: b Project topics, selected by residents, included improving patient safety (e.g., enhancing treatment of patients admitted with diabetic ketoacidosis) as well as improving resident workflow (e.g., updating patient guidance on how to use the after hours resident clinic phone coverage line). B CONCLUSIONS: b In our study, COVID-19 outcomes among female patients were significantly better than male patients; and race or a race-related confounder plays a role in disease severity in COVID-19. 47,762 patients had either DKA or HHS with sepsis, and thus the sepsis control group will refer here to patients with sepsis bu without DKA or HHS. The distribution of the underlying anemia etiologies in hospitalized patients differs from the outpatient setting, and this data can be used to develop an optimal standardized approach to anemia diagnosis and treatment in hospitalized patients. Chronic anemia was the most common etiology (532 patients, 56%), followed by undiagnosed anemia (250 patients, 26%), acute blood loss anemia (141 patients, 15%), anemia due to nutritional deficiency (83 patients, 9%), and sickle cell anemia (74 patients, 8%). [Extracted from the article]