Open AccessHow much do operational processes affect hospital inpatient discharge rates?
Author(s) -
Hannah J. Wong,
Robert Wu,
George Tomlinson,
Michael Caesar,
Howard Abrams,
Michael Carter,
Dante Morra
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.916
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1741-3850
pISSN - 1741-3842
DOI - 10.1093/pubmed/fdp044
Subject(s) - medicine , patient discharge , demography , hospital discharge , emergency medicine , medline , sociology , political science , law
The objective of this study is to determine the effect of day of the week, holiday, team admission and rotation schedules, individual attending physicians and their length of coverage on daily team discharge rates.
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