title: Unlocking hospital gridlock.
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.
authors.affiliation: Phase 2 Consulting, Salt Lake City, USA. jclark@phase2consulting.com
authors.forename: Jonathan J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Clark
mesh_terms: D019985:Benchmarking; D003441:Crowding; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational / Q000592:standards*; D006739:Hospital Administration; D006801:Humans; D010351:Patient Discharge; D014481:United States