Retrospective evaluation of patients who leave against medical advice in a tertiary teaching care institute

Conclusions: About 3.3% of patients left hospital against medical advice in our retrospective analysis. Most of these cases did so from ward followed by ICU. Financial reasons and expected poor outcome played a significant role.

Source: Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine - August 17, 2018 Category: Intensive Care Authors: Nikhil Gautam JP Sharma Anita Sharma Vivek Verma Poonam Arora Parshotam Lal Gautam Source Type: research