All Together Now: Impact of a Regionalization and Bedside Rounding Initiative on the Efficiency and Inclusiveness of Clinical Rounds.

Background: Attending rounds at academic medical centers are often disconnected from patients and team members who are not physicians. Regionalization of care teams may facilitate bedside rounding and more frequent interactions among doctors, nurses, and patients.

Objective: We used time-motion analysis to investigate how regionalization of medical teams and encouragement of bedside rounds affect participants on rounds and rounding time.

Improving the process of care: the cost-quality value of interdisciplinary collaboration.

A multidisciplinary group of clinicians and administrators were convened to find innovative ways to contain costs and improve the quality of care on an inpatient orthopedic unit. This group was charged with examining all phases of care and recommending changes. The team proved to be a model of effective, successful collaboration and has enabled ambitious goals to be realized on this unit.