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Escalation Pathway for General Medicine Teaching and Oncology Teaching

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Escalation to the Attending of record (or Night Hospitalist after 7PM) is expected for all of the following situations:

For patients on the Oncology Teaching service, all of the above situations should be escalated to the Oncology Fellow/Attending during the day, or the Night Hospitalist after 7PM. Select situations should additionally be escalated to the Oncology Fellow On-Call overnight via page/call ** or Epic chat/email. *

The following Oncology-specific situations should be escalated directly to the Oncology Fellow On-Call via page/call:

Rapid Response Team (RRT) is available 24/7 to assist with sick patients at pager 1RRT/1778. See RRT section for full details.