Geographic Cohorting: What Have We Learned?
Geographic cohorting involves assigning patients and their clinical teams to specific hospital units to improve communication, workflow, and collaborative care.
The authors review Geographic Cohorting of Adult Inpatient Teams: A Scoping Review, recently published in the Journal of Hospital Medicine.
Geographic cohorting refers to the assignment of patients and their clinician team to a specific hospital unit, with 64% of hospitalists reporting participation in geographic localization in a pre-pandemic survey.
- Improving communication and workflow efficiency through proximity.
- Enabling collaborative care teams.
However, data on patient outcomes and workflow efficiency are mixed and limited by study methodology, while the heterogeneity of interventions further complicates the assessment of results.
Kashiwagi et al. conducted a comprehensive review on geographic cohorting.
Author's summary: Geographic cohorting improves hospital workflow.
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