Deferred Admission to the Intensive Care Unit: Rationing Critical Care or Expediting Care Transitions?
Archives of Internal MedicinePublished 13 March 2012Open access
Jason Wagner
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The present study suggests that clinicians may reduce ICU admissions that are not overtly beneficial by addressing patients’ goals of care in a more timely and determinative manner when they exhibit physiologic deterioration on the floor, and appears that clinicians can allocate beds efficiently by eliminating nonbeneficial admissions when scarcity forces them to do so.
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