TY - JOUR T1 - Streamlining communication between nursing staff and medical teams regarding patients who are ‘medical outliers’ JF - Future Healthcare Journal JO - Future Healthc J SP - 76 LP - 76 DO - 10.7861/futurehealth.6-2-s76 VL - 6 IS - Suppl 2 AU - Amy Davies AU - Sandhi Nyunt Y1 - 2019/06/01 UR - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/6/Suppl_2/76.abstract N2 - Due to rising demands, hospital beds have become a valuable commodity, no more so than acute medical beds. As a result, patients being admitted under medical specialties may be moved to a non-medical (frequently surgical) ward, becoming a ‘medical outlier’.Although postulated that these patients have increased inpatient mortality, this has not been proven. However, there is evidence that medical outliers have longer lengths of stay.1At the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, medical outliers are allocated to multiple medical consultants in an attempt to distribute the workload evenly. … ER -