Background: Prioritizing hospital discharges to improve throughput and safety is a common theme in hospital systems. More recently, there has been an increasing importance placed on early discharges. Earlier discharges help to improve flow for admitted patients through the emergency department. In addition, by expediting patient care, patients are able to have their questions answered [...]

Background: Delivering high quality and efficient care is a top priority at our 800-bed quaternary care hospital. We have seen significant improvements in many patient-care domains by implementing hospital-wide standardized interdisciplinary rounds. As part of our ongoing efforts to further improve efficiency and value, we hope to leverage a simple order in our electronic medical [...]