Background: Hospital crowding and subsequent resource strain have been associated with worse patient outcomes and increased length of stay (1–3). As pediatric hospitals face an overwhelming respiratory illness surge in the wake of the COVID pandemic (4–6), improving hospital patient flow is all the more critical. Nonetheless, a substantial proportion of patients, nearly 1 in [...]

Background: Late discharges are a known barrier to patient flow.  Our project was to identify barriers to early discharges and develop processes to increase early discharges from the inpatient medicine teams.   Purpose:  “Daily afternoon multidisciplinary team huddles will increase the % of discharge orders before 10am by 10% on the medicine teams by June 2015” Description: We initially analyzed reasons [...]