Objectives To determine whether ICU readmission is associated with higher severity of
illness scores in adult patients. Background Readmissions to the intensive care unit (ICU) …

Introduction The discharge of patients from the intensive care unit (ICU) to a hospital ward is
a common transition of care that is associated with error and adverse events. Risk …

Rationale: Patients transferred from the intensive care unit to the wards who are later
readmitted to the intensive care unit have increased length of stay, healthcare expenditure …

Objective: To examine which patient characteristics increase the risk for intensive care unit
readmission and assess the association of readmission with case-mix adjusted mortality and …

Patient readmissions to intensive care units (ICUs) are associated with increased mortality,
morbidity and costs. Current models for predicting ICU readmissions have moderate …

Objectives: Unexpected ICU readmission is associated with longer length of stay and
increased mortality. To prevent ICU readmission and death after ICU discharge, our team of …

ICU readmission is usually associated with an increased number of hospital death.
Predicting readmission helps to reduce such risks by avoiding early discharge, providing …

It is of great interest to develop and introduce new techniques to automatically and efficiently
analyze the enormous amount of data generated in today's hospitals, using state-of-the-art …

ICU readmissions are a commonly used quality measure but despite decades of research,
these adverse events continue to occur. Of particular concern is that readmitted patients …

Faced with a full Intensive Care Unit (ICU), physicians need to decide between turning away
a new patient in need of critical care and creating a vacancy by prematurely discharging a …