Background: The healthcare system needs tools that can predict which patients are at risk of deterioration, before adverse outcomes such as cardiac arrest or even death occur. Many of these patients will show signs of significant physiological deterioration in the 24 hours prior to ICU transfer or cardiac arrest [1-4]. Different scores have been developed […]

Background: Late‐afternoon discharges create admission bottlenecks in the ED. Long ED length of stay (LOS) is a major dissatisfier for patients. In addition, patients who arrive on the floor after 1 pm have a 0.6 day longer LOS than those who arrive before 1 pm. In January 2012, the 30‐day running discharge before noon (DBN) […]