Background: It has been recently shown that patients admitted at night and during the weekend have worse mortality outcomes. The impact of those variables on other important outcomes such as length of stay (LOS) and readmission is less clear. We sought to analyze this relationship in a large cohort of inpatients. Methods: We performed a […]

Background: Optimizing transitions of care (TOCs) has become a clear focus of national health care goals. The discharge (DC) summary is arguably the most important document in the TOC for a hospitalized patient. Ideally, it serves as a summary of the patient's hospital course and discharge diagnoses and serves as a handoff to the next […]