"triggered admission" is an acceptable phrase in written English and can be used in a variety of contexts.
It typically describes an event or situation that has caused information to be revealed. For example, "The scandal triggered an admission from the politician that he had taken bribes."
Mean gestational ages and underlying diagnoses that triggered admissions to the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) are summarised (Table 1).
Patients who died during the triggering admission were removed from the analysis.
If the patient had more than one emergency medical admission during 2005/2006, we took the first admission as the triggering admission for consistency with earlier studies.
We classified a patient as being readmitted if, within the 12 months following discharge for the triggering admission, they had at least one acute admission.
Sensitivity analyses (not presented) showed that, for patients who had more than one admission in 2005/2006, it made no difference to the results whether we used the first or the last admission during 2005/2006 as the triggering admission.
Thirdly, does the period of increased risk differ by the initial condition triggering admission to hospital, implying a potential benefit of tailoring the duration and intensity of follow-up to the index diagnosis?
Evidence as to best practice strategies enabling people with dementia to live at home as long as possible and also identifying the right time to trigger admission to a long-term nursing care facility is therefore urgently required.
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) follows a slowly progressive natural course that can be accelerated by acute exacerbations, which frequently trigger admissions to hospital.
The predictive algorithm was developed using a 75% training sample selected at random of triggering admissions and validated on the remaining 25%.
The decision to evaluate comorbidities across all admissions up to and including the trigger admission was in order to account for potential lapses in diagnostic coding.
Hypoglycaemia unresponsive to supplemental feeding triggers admission to SCN/NICU, more frequent, larger supplemental feeds, further glucose gel or intravenous glucose therapy, to achieve normal TBGs.
