Meeting
Abstract Number: 256
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Background: Late discharges are associated with hospital overcrowding, delayed inter-unit patient transfers, lower patient satisfaction scores and longer length of stay. At our hospital, there has been a consistent discordance between the teaching and non-teaching hospitalist services in the percentages of patients discharged before 11 am, which was 8.4% (teaching teams) versus 36.4% (non-teaching teams) […]