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Can we predict which COVID‐19 patients will need transfer to intensive care within 24 hours of floor admission?

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Patients with COVID‐19 can present to the emergency department (ED) at any point during the spectrum of illness, making it difficult to predict what level of care the patient will… Click to show full abstract

Patients with COVID‐19 can present to the emergency department (ED) at any point during the spectrum of illness, making it difficult to predict what level of care the patient will ultimately require. Admission to a ward bed, which is subsequently upgraded within hours to an intensive care unit (ICU) bed, represents an inability to appropriately predict the patient's course of illness. Predicting which patients will require ICU care within 24 hours would allow admissions to be managed more appropriately.

Keywords: admission; intensive care; care within; predict covid; care; within hours

Journal Title: Academic Emergency Medicine
Year Published: 2021

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