Background: Discharging complex patients at an academic tertiary care center requires comprehensive evaluation, interprofessional coordination, and meticulous planning to address what is needed to ensure safe and timely discharges. Misalignment across care team members on discharge needs and barriers can lead to a delayed discharge which may result in poor patient satisfaction, increased task burden [...]

Background: Improving hospital throughput and capacity is a challenge that many health systems face. Specifically, emergency room overcrowding leads to delayed access to treatment and increased mortality, thereby negatively impacting patient safety (Franklin, et al., 2023). Health systems strive to employ multiple strategies to tackle the issues around patient flow. One such strategy includes the [...]