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Discharge in the AM

NCT05370638 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 61

Last updated 2022-05-11

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

As hospitals around the country continue to work to manage a high patient census, provider prioritization of discharges is one low cost mechanism to help improve patient throughput and patient length of stay. The investigators conducted a prospective randomized study to understand if this commonly utilized approach to expedite care results in earlier discharges and lower hospital lengths of stay while also understanding the impact on other patient care (such as test and consult order times on other patients that the physician is caring for).

Conditions

  • Hospitalism
  • Flow or Discharge

Interventions

OTHER

Rounding on discharging patients first

Rounding on discharging patients meant that the attending physician and accompanying team (i.e. if they were working with advanced practice providers or learners) would prioritize seeing any patients that were going to discharge that day. The attending could break protocol if needed for patient care purposes and this was tracked each day.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Denver Health and Hospital Authority

    collaborator OTHER

  • Johns Hopkins University

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of Colorado, Denver

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Marisha Burden, MD · University of Colorado School of Medicine

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2021-02-09
Primary Completion
2021-07-31
Completion
2021-07-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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