Hospital-level intensive care unit admission for patients with isolated blunt abdominal solid organ injury
CONCLUSION
Admission location of stable patients with isolated mild to moderate abdominal SOIs is variable across hospitals, but hospitalization at a facility with greater ICU use is not associated with substantially improved outcomes.
LEVEL OF EVIDENCE
Therapeutic/care management, Level IV.
Source: The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care - Category: Orthopaedics Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLES Source Type: research
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