A common acute care discharge order, “follow up in one week with primary care,” is a virtually impossible task amid ever-growing waitlists at primary care clinics across the U.S. So what if healthcare ...

The recent projection that national hospital bed occupancy will reach dangerous shortage levels as soon as 2032 perhaps rang a familiar alarm for those seeking to solve the persistent puzzle that is ...

The University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics is working to streamline its discharge processes after an internal audit revealed the Iowa City-based system achieves its target discharge time in only ...

As part of their PGY3 training, Internal Medicine residents Brian Sanders and Matt Christensen decided to address gaps in medication reconciliation for patients at discharge. Discharge medication ...

A retrospective multicenter study found that patients with heart failure discharged by noon had higher short- and long-term mortality and increased early readmission rates compared with afternoon ...