Accepting Critically Ill Transfer Patients: Adverse Effect on a Referral Center's Outcome and Benchmark Measures

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Accepting Critically Ill Transfer Patients: Adverse Effect on a Referral Center's Outcome and Benchmark Measures

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Table 1. Characteristics of Medical Intensive Care Unit Patients Directly Admitted from the Emergency Department or Clinic, Admitted from the General Medicine Floor, or Transferred from Another Hospital

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Table 2. Resource Use and Mortality of Medical Intensive Care Unit Patients Directly Admitted from the Emergency Department or Clinic, Admitted from the General Medicine Floor, or Transferred from Another Hospital

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Table 3. Intensive Care Unit and Hospital Outcomes for Patients Transferred from Another Hospital to the Medical Intensive Care Unit Compared with Direct and Combined Direct and Floor Intensive Care Unit Admissions, Adjusting for Case Mix and Physiologic Illness Severity

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Table 4. Recommendations for Profiling and Research Using Risk-Adjusted Outcome Measures