ArticleJournal of economic behavior & organization2016
Higher Quality and Lower Cost from Improving Hospital Discharge Decision Making.
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- Looking inside the lab: a systematic literature review of economic experiments in health service provision.The European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care · 2024Pooled it
- Evidence-based Clinical Decision Support Systems for the prediction and detection of three disease states in critical care: A systematic literature review.F1000Research · 2019Pooled it
- Improving asthma outcomes in Kuwait through a standardized emergency department algorithm.The World Allergy Organization journal · 2025Article
- Physicians' incentives, patients' characteristics, and quality of care: a systematic experimental comparison of performance-pay systems.International journal of health economics and management · 2025Article
- Effects of patients' hospital discharge preferences on uptake of clinical decision support.PloS one · 2021Article
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- Discharge decision-making after complex surgery: Surgeon behaviors compared to predictive modeling to reduce surgical readmissions.American journal of surgery · 2017Article
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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 uptake of our clinical decision support software (CDSS) which presents physicians with evidence-based discharge criteria that can be effectively utilized at the point of care where the discharge decision is made. One experimental treatment we report prompts 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 experiment was conducted using resident physicians and fourth-year medical students at a university medical school as subjects.
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