Background: Closing the gap between evidence-supported antibiotic use and prescribing patterns among clinicians is a vital component of curbing excessive antibiotic use, a practice that fosters antimicrobial resistance and exposes patients to the side effects of antimicrobial agents. Providing medication prescribing information via scorecard has been shown to improve clinician adherence to quality metrics in […]

Background: Length of stay (LOS) is an important metric to monitor the efficiency of a hospital and is the focus of many operational and quality projects. Decreasing LOS is often made the responsibility of hospitalists and in order to identify improvement opportunities, LOS at the individual is examined. There are multiple strategies to attribute LOS […]