title: Barrier reduction teams smooth throughput.
abstract: At New York Presbyterian, each service has a barrier reduction team, led by a nurse manager, that identifies barriers to the discharge process and determines ways to improve. Teams include care coordinators, social workers, nurses, and any other discipline that can affect patient throughput. Teams collect information on anticipated versus actual discharges every day and meet biweekly to discuss the differences. Changes recommended by the teams have been made on individual services, and some have been rolled out throughout the hospital.
mesh_terms: D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D016519:Hospitals, Religious; D006801:Humans; D009518:New York; D019982:Organizational Case Studies; D010348:Patient Care Team; D010351:Patient Discharge / Q000592:standards*