. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Jun 3.

Published in final edited form as: Acad Emerg Med. 2007 Jul 13;14(11):1072–1078. doi: 10.1197/j.aem.2007.04.014

Table 1.

Description of Participating Hospitals

	Carolinas Medical Center¹⁷	Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center¹¹	Penrose-St. Francis
Hospital type	Community, teaching	University-based, teaching	Community, nonteaching
ICU type	Mixed	Closed	Open
ICU capacity (no. of beds)	70	60	27
Annual ED census	> 100,000	50,000	83,000 (combined)
Annual ICU census	6,000	4,100	1,300
EGDT candidates^*	14	10	4
EG DT treated^†	150	>300	90
Post-EGDT mortality reduction (%)^‡	9	9	N/A

EGDT = early goal-directed therapy; ICU = intensive care unit; N/A = not applicable.

The average number of candidates eligible to receive goal-directed therapy in the ED per month.

^†

The total number of patients treated with goal-directed therapy to date.

^‡

The absolute mortality reduction observed post-EGDT in the ED. For detailed methods on candidate identification and mortality reduction at Carolinas Medical Center and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, see references 17 and 11, respectively. These data are not available from Penrose-St. Francis due to lack of institutional review board approval.