Why the study?
Can subgroups of medical intensive care patients with extremely low survival rates be identified on admission to justify systematic exclusion?
Can subgroups of medical intensive care patients with extremely low survival rates be identified on admission to justify systematic exclusion?
Controlling ICU costs by systematically excluding patients with very low expected survival based on admission data may not be possible.
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No admission subgroup had survival low enough to justify systematic ICU exclusion; leaves open feasibility of cost control by selective admission.
Mark R. Chassin (1982) studied this question.
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