TABLE 4.

Critical Care Capacity Metrics

1)	Number of acute care hospital beds
2)	Number of ICU beds
3)	Number of intermediate medical unit beds
4)	Number of operating rooms
5)	Number of post-anesthesia care unit beds
6)	Number of functional extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (beds, devices, staffing)
7)	Tele-medicine capabilities
8)	Number of critical care equipment: a) Invasive ventilators b) Number of noninvasive ventilators c) Number of high-flow oxygen delivery systems d) Number of dialysis machines e) Number of IV pumps f) Other devices
9)	Patient types and volumes a) Surgical (type of surgeries performed) b) Medical (type of medical services performed) c) Neurologic/neurosurgical d) Pediatric e) Gynecology/obstetrics f) Burns g) Trauma
10)	Severity of illness a) Acuity b) Case mix index
11)	Admission patterns a) Day/night-daily distribution
12)	Admission sources a) Emergency department b) Clinics c) Other hospitals d) Other
13)	Waiting times from admission to be in hospital bed
14)	Discharge times and variability
15)	Length of stay in the hospital
16)	Length of stay in ICU
17)	Hospital readmission rates
18)	ICU readmission rates
19)	Staffing numbers a) Physicians, nurses, respiratory therapists, other
20)	Staffing ratios a) Physicians, nurses, respiratory therapists, other (e.g., number of shifts)
21)	Utilization rate a) Acute care beds b) ICU beds c) Other