An Interdisciplinary Dashboard to Streamline Medication Processing at Patient Discharge: A Quality Improvement Initiative.

Introduction: The purpose of this quality improvement project was to develop and evaluate the use of an electronic medication request dashboard to reduce the amount of time required for medication processing and decrease time lost to workflow interruptions during patient discharge. Delayed discharges are associated with increased health care costs and adverse patient outcomes. Processing of medication requests at discharge contributes to these delays and to workflow interruptions for nursing and pharmacy staff at the project site.