Increasing and sustaining discharges by noon - a multi-year process improvement project

• Main Authors: Ryan Bailey (Author), Ankur Segon (Author), Sean Garcia (Author), Saket Kottewar (Author), Ting Lu (Author), Nelson Tuazon (Author), Lisa Sanchez (Author), Jonathan A. Gelfond (Author), Gregory Bowling (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2024-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract High hospital occupancy degrades emergency department performance by increasing wait times, decreasing patient satisfaction, and increasing patient morbidity and mortality. Late discharges contribute to high hospital occupancy by increasing emergency department (ED) patient length of stay (...