American College of Chest Physicians
New critical care research presented at CHEST 2009
Published in Medical Imaging Law Weekly, November 17th, 2009
An increasing number of patients in the ICU are being discharged home instead of being admitted to a step-down unit. Researchers from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, NY, analyzed data collected from ICU patients discharged home over a 4-year period. During the study, 33 patients, or 1.4 percent of all discharged patients, were discharged home with increasing frequency from year 2 to 4. Of the patients discharged home, the average age was 61.2 (±16.2) years, 61 percent were men, and 72.7 were medical patients. Admitting diagnoses were typical of ICU...
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