Intensive Care Unit Admitting Patterns in the Veterans Affairs Health Care System
Author(s) -
Lena M. Chen,
Marta L. Render,
Anne Sales,
Edward H. Kennedy,
Wyndy L. Wiitala,
Timothy P. Hofer
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
archives of internal medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1538-3679
pISSN - 0003-9926
DOI - 10.1001/archinternmed.2012.2606
Subject(s) - medicine , veterans affairs , intensive care unit , emergency medicine , odds ratio , retrospective cohort study , odds , quartile , mortality rate , emergency department , intensive care , acute care , severity of illness , health care , intensive care medicine , logistic regression , confidence interval , psychiatry , economics , economic growth
Critical care resource use accounts for almost 1% of US gross domestic product and varies widely among hospitals. However, we know little about the initial decision to admit a patient to the intensive care unit (ICU).
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