Outcomes of a Resident-Led Early Hospital Discharge Intervention.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Early morning patient discharge from the hospital is increasingly being recognized as a key dimension of quality of care. At our institution, there is a significantly lower early discharge rate on the teaching hospitalist teams in comparison with the non-teaching teams.

Objective

To implement a resident-driven intervention in the teaching medical services to increase overall discharge order rate before 11 am (DOB-11) and assess the effect of this intervention on hospital length of stay (LOS), 30-day readmission rates (RR), and resident perception.

Design

Interrupted time series as well as controlled before-after designs.

Participants

All inpatients discharged from general medicine units.

Interventions

We implemented an educational didactic in

SUBMITTER: Goolsarran N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7018867 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature