Document Type
Article
Publication Date
7-1-2014
Abstract
This paper reports research on improving decisions about hospital discharges ‒ decisions that are now made by physicians based on mainly subjective evaluations of patients’ discharge status. We report an experiment on efficacy of our clinical decision support software (CDSS) which presents physicians with evidence-based discharge criteria that can be effectively applied at the point of care where the discharge decision is made. We report results from an experimental treatment that mandates physician attentiveness to the CDSS by replacing the default option of universal “opt in” to patient discharge with the alternative default option of “opt out” from the CDSS recommendations to discharge or not to discharge the patient on each day of hospital stay. We also report results from experimental treatments that implement the CDSS under varying conditions of time pressure on the subjects. The experiments were conducted using resident physicians and fourth-year medical students at a university medical school as subjects.
Recommended Citation
Cox, James; Sadiraj, Vjollca; Schnier, Kurt; and Sweeney, John, "Higher Quality and Lower Cost from Improving Hospital Discharge Decision Making" (2014). ExCEN Working Papers. 40.
https://scholarworks.gsu.edu/excen_workingpapers/40
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