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Introducing a Structured Daily Multi-Disciplinary Board Round to Safely Enhance Surgical Ward Patient Flow in the Bed Shortage Era: A Quality Improvement Research Report

2023-02-01

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Hospital bed shortage is a worldwide concern. Beds unavailability has caused elective surgery cancellations, at our hospital peaking in spring 2016 at over 50%. This is often due to difficult patient step-down from intensive care (ICU) and high-dependency units (HDU). In our general/digestive surgery service admitting approximately 1000 patients yearly, ward rounds were run on a consultant firm basis. We report a...

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10.20944/preprints202104.0787.v5
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