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Table 2 Patient discharge location Length of Stay (LOS) comparison for different Intensive Care Units (ICUs): Cardiac Care Unit, Cardiac Surgery Recovery Unit, Medical ICU, Surgical ICU, Trauma Surgical ICU

From: Using the National Early Warning Score (NEWS/NEWS 2) in different Intensive Care Units (ICUs) to predict the discharge location of patients

  

Median (IQR) Length of Stay (LOS) in days for each Discharge Location

 

Cohort

Patients n

Home

Hospital Ward

Nursing/ Primary Care

Hospice/Death

Total

CCU

3,967

1.75 (1.74)

4.10 (6.89)

2.98 (3.30)

3.57 (6.33)

2.05 (2.76)

CSRU

6,185

1.47 (1.52)

3.98 (7.64)

2.49 (2.84)

4.07 (8.85)

2.05 (2.11)

MICU

9,482

1.69 (1.73)

2.88 (5.76)

2.36 (2.63)

3.22 (5.84)

2.00 (2.82)

SICU

4,670

1.77 (1.84)

3.17 (7.25)

2.78 (4.06)

2.81 (5.70)

2.11 (3.38)

TSICU

4,219

1.59 (1.69)

3.54 (8.09)

2.00 (2.48)

2.75 (5.50)

2.00 (3.27)

All

28,523

1.67 (1.70)

3.31 (7.10)

2.55 (2.88)

3.13 (5.94)

2.04 (2.80)