The Pennsylvania health system has eliminated redundant processes and reduced the time and number of people involved in a discharge while boosting patient satisfaction scores. Patient discharge can be ...

The first two parts of this Clinical Efficiency Tricks series laid out the systemic and individual changes that can improve emergency department (ED) patient flow during the arrivaland in-room ...

On June 6, 2023, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) provided a Quality Safety & Oversight (QSO) memorandum outlining CMS-identified concerns with respect to the patient discharge ...

If you’ve ever been discharged from a hospital or helped a loved one through it, you know how overwhelming it can be. One moment, you’re in a hospital bed, and the next, you’re handed a pile of ...

I loved working nights as an emergency department physician. The challenge and adrenaline rush of saving lives, caring for patients and bringing order to chaos keeps me driven. In recent years, change ...

Correlation of cost in teaching hospital with outcomes in patients with cardiac myxoma: A retrospective study using the national in-patient data sample (NIS). In-hospital factors associated with ...

Disease burden estimates of pneumonia-associated hospitalizations are more sensitive when including pneumonia coded in any diagnosis field vs in only the first discharge diagnosis field. Objectives: ...