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The Impact of Opening a Medical Step-Down Unit on Medically Critically Ill Patient Outcomes and Throughput: A Difference-in-Differences Analysis.

Hayley B GershengornCarri W ChanYunchao XuHanxi SunRonni LevyMor ArmonyMichelle N Gong
Published in: Journal of intensive care medicine (2018)
Opening our medical SDU improved medical ICU throughput but did not affect more patient-centered outcomes of hospital mortality and LOS.
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