Intensive care unit admission criteria: a scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Effectively identifying deteriorated patients is vital to the development and validation of automated systems designed to predict clinical deterioration. Existing outcome measures used for this purpose have significant limitations. Published criteria for admission to high acuity inpatient areas may represent markers of patient deterioration and could inform the development of alternate outcome measures.

Objectives

In this scoping review, we aimed to characterise published criteria for admission of adult inpatients to high acuity inpatient areas including intensive care units. A secondary aim was to identify variables that are extractable from electronic health records (EHRs).

Data sources

Electronic databases PubMed and ProQuest EBook Central

SUBMITTER: Soares J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11366187 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature