"threshold of admission" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when referring to the criteria needed to be admitted (or accepted) to a particular school, program, or job. For example: The school has a high threshold of admission, making it difficult for applicants to be accepted.
For this group our data indicate an overuse of diagnostic procedures like the exercise test and a lower threshold of hospital admission in men.
First, because of the heightened awareness associated with nH1N1, there is the possibility that the influence of pandemic influenza publicity may have lowered the threshold for admission of nH1N1 cases when compared with SI cases.
No consideration is given for severity of illness scoring, however, and it may be that this reflects a lower threshold for admission of these patients to the ICU.
However, the lower score in the obstetric subset of the CMPD, compared with the nonpregnant female control cohort, suggests that either there is a lower threshold for admission of obstetric patients or that the score underestimates 'sickness' in obstetric patients who otherwise require admission.
Limitations of the study centre on whether these trends reflect the occurrence of MVR injury severe enough to require admission or whether they relate to differences in coding or health service thresholds for admission of children with MVR injury.
This strict and objective outcome definition allows for increased confidence when comparing patients across centres; using intensive care unit admission alone as an outcome definition is subject to variability of thresholds for admission to intensive care between study sites.
However, the patients in our study are those admitted to hospital and it is possible, even likely, that typical clinical thresholds for admission of patients with IM can be influenced by patients' socio-economic circumstances.
In our study, a low threshold for admission, premature discharge and inadequate discharge planning accounted for 25.6% of avoidable readmissions.
The scalability of triage tools may aid in decision making by objectively altering the threshold for admission to critical care.
It is quite probable that the increases are due to changing thresholds for admission rather than the severity of the problems of the presenting patient.
