Background: Interprofessional rounds have the potential to improve patient safety, quality, and experience.  Although increasingly implemented, significant variation in rounding practice patterns exist and few data are available to evaluate impact on patients’ experiences. We implemented a novel inpatient collaborative care (CC) model, which includes interprofessional rounds, and also purposely integrates patients and families into [...]

Background: Hospital length of stay (LOS) is an important metric for evaluating a healthcare system’s quality of patient care, patient experience and outcomes, efficiency of practice, and resource management. The COVID-19 pandemic led to a significant increase in the average hospital LOS in the United States. Hospital LOS has continued to remain high due to [...]