447 patients had LOS < 1 day and were primarily treated in the ED and discharged home.
All patients in the study population were primarily treated in primary care.
As all Indigenous patients had attended a Queensland public hospital, two non-Indigenous patients who were primarily treated in a private facility were excluded.
In Denmark, people with dysglycaemia are primarily treated in primary care, and therefore this is the obvious setting to offer the intervention.
The strengths of this study were the prospective data collection in a multicentre setting and the strict patient selection; only patients with moderate-severe CAP primarily treated in general wards were included.
All patients were admitted voluntarily and were primarily treated in an inpatient treatment setting for medical observation and stabilization, which was followed by a day patient setting for most patients.
Pandemic influenza patients will be primarily treated in these hospitals as occurred in the outbreak of SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome), when public healthcare workers were at the highest risk for contracting infection.
All included cases in this study were primarily treated in or referred to tertiary university medical centres, which may have led to the introduction of bias towards patients with more severe disease.
