Unplanned admission to an intensive care unit is a valid metric for assessing patient safety in surgical patients.
Supports UIA validity as a surgical safety metric; leaves open prospective validation before clinical adoption.
These findings provide strong support for the construct validity of UIA as a measure of patient safety.
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