title: Team huddles improve LOS, core measures.
abstract: When Springfield (OH) Regional Medical Center began daily multidisciplinary team huddles to facilitate patient care, performance on targeted core measures rose and the observed-to-expected length of stay ratio decreased. Case managers and charge nurses on each unit facilitate the daily multidisciplinary huddles during which every patient is discussed. The team uses a series of tools, including huddle logs and referral sheets to track what patients need and who should provide the services. At the huddles, which are at specific times every day, the team reviews each patient, the plan of care and goals, and what needs to happen that day.
mesh_terms: D019090:Case Management; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D006769:Hospitals, General; D007324:Institutional Management Teams; D007902:Length of Stay; D009820:Ohio; D019982:Organizational Case Studies; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*