“The development of the discharge lounge has demonstrated significant improvement in five areas:
• Higher patient satisfaction scores
• Increased patient discharges by 2:00 p.m. daily
• Reduced boarding time, or the time patients spend in the ED before being transferred to another unit
• Decreased frequency of 30-day readmissions
• Enhanced identification and correction of potential safety issues”

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Woods, R., et al (2020). The Discharge Lounge: A Patient Flow Process Solution. Journal of Nursing Care Quality, 35(3), 240–244
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Barone, M., et al (2022). Implementing a Departure Lounge: A Strategy to Improve Patient Flow and the Discharge Process. The Journal of nursing administration, 52(3), 129–131.
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Nasr Isfahani, M., Davari, F., Azizkhani, R., & Rezvani, M. (2020). Decreased Emergency Department Overcrowding by Discharge Lounge: A Computer Simulation Study. International journal of preventive medicine, 11, 13.

Franklin, B. J., et al . (2020). The Inpatient Discharge Lounge as a Potential Mechanism to Mitigate Emergency Department Boarding and Crowding. Annals of Emergency Medicine, 75(6), 704–714.
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