Background: Transforming hospital operations to optimize patient experience begins with a collaborative care team. The geographic re-location of physicians into one unit with an entire care team, in addition to the implementation of Structured Interdisciplinary Bedside Rounds (SIBR), have been linked to multiple outcomes related to effective care team communication and collaboration, including patient safety [...]

Background: At our institution, bedside co-rounding with physicians and nurses has been promoted as a mechanism to facilitate care team communication. However, coordinating bedside co-rounding can be logistically challenging and time consuming, especially when patients and care team members are not geographically co-localized. Little is known on how bedside co-rounding impacts patient experience. We aimed [...]