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Question Can interdisciplinary rounds improve efficiency of patient care and staff satisfaction, and decrease costs on inpatient medical units?
Design
Randomised controlled trial.
Setting
3 inpatient medical units in an acute care, tertiary referral and teaching hospital in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
Patients
1102 patients (mean age 53 y, 52% women) who were admitted to and discharged from the medical unit. Patients who spent <50% of their hospital stay on the medical unit or who were transferred to another service were excluded.
Intervention
On their first admission, patients were allocated to 1 of 3 inpatient medical units from which they received all care for this and any subsequent admissions. Each of the 3 medical units had 2 physician teams. The teams were divided so that both teams …