ArticleAcademic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine2017
Characteristics of Short-stay Critical Care Admissions From Emergency Departments in Maryland.
Article in Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
7 citing papers in PubMed.
- Comparison of Emergency Department Boarders Managed by a Critical Care Consult Service versus Standard Care.The western journal of emergency medicine · 2026Article
- National Intensive Care Unit Utilization for Diabetic Ketoacidosis Increased From 2012 to 2022.Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine · 2025Article
- Characteristics and Outcomes of Implementing Emergency Department-based Intensive Care Units: A Scoping Review.The western journal of emergency medicine · 2025Article
- Descriptive Analysis of Extubations Performed in an Emergency Department-based Intensive Care Unit.The western journal of emergency medicine · 2020Observational
- Association of an Emergency Department-Based Intensive Care Unit With Survival and Inpatient Intensive Care Unit Admissions.JAMA network open · 2019Article
- A retrospective cohort study of short-stay admissions to the medical intensive care unit: Defining patient characteristics and critical care resource utilization.International journal of critical illness and injury scienceArticle
- What's new in critical illness and injury science? Resource allocation and very short intensive care unit stays.International journal of critical illness and injury scienceArticle
Corrections and comments
- Commented on by
Authors and funding
3 authors.
Funding
Abstract
objectivesCritical care is an expensive and limited resource, and short-stay critical care admissions may be treated in alternate, less costly settings. This study objective was to determine the proportion of critical care admissions with a short critical care length of stay (LOS) and identify the clinical characteristics and diagnoses associated with high and low rates of short-stay critical care admissions.
methodsThis study was a secondary analysis of the 2011 Maryland State Inpatient Database. The study included adult emergency department (ED) visits admitted to a critical care unit. We compared clinical data and discharge diagnoses for short- (≤1 day) versus longer- (≥2 days) stay critical care admissions.
resultsA total of 30,212 critical care admissions were eligible, of which 11,494 (38.0%) were short stay. There were significant differences in age, insurance, and comorbidities between the short-stay and the longer-stay critical care admissions. Of short-stay critical care admissions, 3,404 (29.6%) also had a 1-day overall hospital LOS. The diagnoses with the highest proportion of short-stay critical care admissions were nonspecific chest pain (87.9%), syncope (70.6%), and transient cerebral ischemia (67.6%) and the lowest proportion were respiratory failure (17.9%), sepsis (19.4%), and aspiration pneumonitis (19.8%).
conclusionsOver one-third of critical care admissions were short stay. Alternate strategies to manage these patients, including ED-based critical care units or other venues of inpatient care, may be more cost-efficient for selected patients.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.