Table 1.

Summary of 7-Day Hospital Initiative Components

Intervention Component	Detailed Description	Implementation Dates
Increased weekend diagnostic procedures	Increased availability of echocardiography, cardiac stress tests, interventional radiology, swallow studies	March–September 2012
Expanded hospitalist coverage	Increased staffing of hospitalist attending physicians on weekends to levels comparable to weekday staffing; improved handoff processes, which occurred during Friday bedside rounds and included the weekend hospitalist, the weekday hospitalist and the resident team	July 2012
Increased care management staffing	Increased care management and social work staffing to improve weekend discharge processes	February 2012–January 2013
Improved discharge collaboration	Implemented standard weekend interdisciplinary rounds to improve communication and discharge processes among social workers, care managers, nurses, and physicians on weekends	July–September 2012, January 2014
Increased elective weekend surgeries	Implemented strategies to increase the number of elective, primarily outpatient, surgeries performed on weekends. Strategies included increased weekend staffing of operating rooms, increased availability of high-demand operating rooms on weekends, and physician incentives/requirements to perform weekend surgeries.	January 2012–December 2013