Among-Hospital Variation in ICU Admission Practices and Associated Outcomes for Patients with Acute Respiratory Failure.

George L AnesiErich DressMarzana ChowdhuryWei WangDylan S SmallM Kit DelgadoBrian BayesJulia E SzymczakLindsay W GlassmanFernando X BarredaJonathan Z WeinerGabriel J EscobarScott D HalpernVincent X Liu

Published in: Annals of the American Thoracic Society (2022)

Hospitals vary considerably in ICU admission rates, the sensitivity of those rates to hospital capacity strain, and the benefits of ICU admission for patients with ARF not requiring life support therapies in the ED. Future work is needed to more fully identify hospital-level factors contributing to these relationships.

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