However, not all patients with critical illnesses are admitted to the ICU [ 21, 22].
In support of the hypothesis that more patients with severe illnesses are admitted during the weekend, previous studies on stroke, a common disorder that requires acute care, found that the 'weekend effect' disappeared after adjusting for deferred admissions and disease severity.
Children with signs of severe illness were admitted to the health center inpatient wards or referred to Maprik Hospital.
In the initial phases of the pandemic during which this study was performed, patients suggestive of Influenza-like illness were admitted to designated ward of a Corporation hospital.
About 50% of patients presenting with self-inflicting injuries in emergency departments had previous known psychiatric disorder (PD) [ 1, 2], whereas individuals with mental illness were admitted for unintentional injury twice as often as those without [ 3].
In response to this challenge, during times of MICU bed nonavailability Jacobi Medical Center (Bronx, New York) activates a policy whereby patients with noncardiovascular critical illness are admitted to a cardiology-staffed CCU for critical care to be delivered in a timely manner.
On August 26 , 2010 a 36-year-old woman, 29 weeks pregnant without underlying chronic illness, was admitted to the University Medical Center Ljubljana with preeclampsia and restriction of intrauterine growth.
He presented at age 2 months with a viral illness, was admitted to rule out sepsis and found to be extremely hypertensive (BP 170s/100s mmHg, >99th percentile).
As expected, both quetiapine XR and IR treatment were initiated more often in district psychiatric clinics (and ambulatory psychiatric clinics for quetiapine XR patients) because only patients with acute exacerbation of their schizophrenia illness are admitted to hospital in Denmark.
It has been documented that physicians tend to be more selective in their ICU admissions at times of bed shortages, with patients with higher severity of illness being admitted [ 25].
