Background: Admissions from the Emergency Department (ED) to the inpatient floor units are often inefficient; this translates to increased expense via increased length of stay (LOS), fewer available patient rooms via “patient boarding”, and an overall less positive experience for patients and their families. Reducing admission times effectively increases the capacity of the ED and [...]

Background: There is a rising demand for hospitalist involvement in quality improvement (QI). Hospitalists now assume larger patient volumes and have become natural leaders in daily patient care, interdisciplinary rounding and patient safety. Despite a seemingly direct fit into QI, the majority of hospitalists have received minimal QI training in medical school, residency or beyond. [...]