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ReviewJournal of the Intensive Care Society2019

Lessons learned and new directions regarding Discharge Direct from Adult Intensive Care Units Sent Home (DISH): A narrative review.

John Basmaji, Vincent Lau, Joyce Lam, Fran Priestap, Ian M Ball

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Review in Journal of the Intensive Care Society, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. Factors Affecting Discharge to Home of Medical Patients Treated in an Intensive Care Unit.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

John BasmajiDepartment of Medicine, Western University, London, ON, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9749-1747
Vincent LauDepartment of Medicine, Western University, London, ON, Canada.
Joyce LamDepartment of Medicine, Western University, London, ON, Canada.
Fran PriestapDepartment of Medicine, Western University, London, ON, Canada.
Ian M BallDepartment of Medicine, Western University, London, ON, Canada.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeTo perform a narrative review of the literature regarding the discharge of patients directly to home (DDH) from the intensive care unit, and to identify patient characteristics and clinical outcomes associated with this practice.

methodsWe searched MEDLINE and EMBASE from 1946 to present. We also manually searched the references of relevant articles. A two-step review process with three independent reviewers was used to identify relevant articles based on predetermined inclusion/exclusion criteria.

resultsFour studies were included in the final review. Two studies were retrospective and two studies were prospective that shared data from the same patient cohort. All were single center studies. Two of the four studies outlined clinical outcomes associated with DDH.

conclusionsThis study highlights the relative dearth in the literature regarding the increasingly common practice of DDH, underscores the importance of further studies in this area, and identifies future important foci of research.

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Dischargehomeintensive care unit

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PMID31037110
PMCPMC6475989

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