Discharge by noon in academic settings

Huddle+ | Inefficiency Insights #24

Author

Jared Dashevsky, MD
March 14, 2024 • Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes

Problem One-liner

There’s an ongoing push to incentivize AM discharges at academic medical centers (‘discharge by noon’). However, AM rounding often gets in the way of discharging patients, and pressures to get the patient out by noon may lead to unsafe discharges.

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