Emergency Department disposition decisions and associated mortality and costs in ICU patients with suspected infection

BackgroundFollowing emergency department (ED) assessment, patients with infection may be directly admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) or alternatively admitted to hospital wards or sent home. Those admitted to the hospital wards or sent home may experience future deterioration necessitating ICU admission.MethodsWe used a prospectively collected registry from two hospitals within a single tertiary care hospital network between 2011 and …