Short stay admissions that are outside of observation unit models hold challenges for throughput and decreasing length of stay (LOS). In our institution at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, United States, we noticed a lack of communication about potential next-day discharges from the day and night admission teams to the inpatient teams. Our hospitalist division started the Early Discharge ...

t h c c Background. Postoperative stays after coronary artery ypass graft surgery (CABG) decreased substantially in he 1990s. Although shorter stays offer clinical benefits, remature discharge could increase adverse events and ffset initial savings. This study examined the effect of arly discharge after CABG on readmission/death and ost within 60 days of discharge home. Variability in ospitals’...

Background: Prematurity could result in the long admission of the neonate to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) and development of some complications for both mother and newborn. The early discharge programs make the neonatal transference to home much easier and are beneficial to both parents and newborns. However,there are limited studies investigating the real needs of the preterm neonat...