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Abstract
Hospitals should identify barriers to timely patient discharges. Benchmarking hospital data with best-practice hospital experience can help in developing recommendations for improvement. Solutions include developing revised discharge policies and procedures, establishing and communicating a discharge time, and setting a deadline for physicians to write orders for discharge and discharge-dependent tests.Entities:
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Year: 2005 PMID: 16323815
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Healthc Financ Manage ISSN: 0735-0732