Figure 5.

Recommended disposition after initial and second presentations and after 12 hours of observation. (A) The proportion of physicians in each surveyed specialty who would have recommended overnight admission to the general hospital floor or discharge to a skilled nursing care facility/nursing home after the case patient’s first presentation and subsequent laboratory results are shown. (B) The percentage of physicians in each specialty recommending admission to the general hospital floor versus the ICU after the patient’s initial laboratory results upon second admission and subsequent results obtained after 12 hours of observation are shown. See Figure 1 for the summarized laboratory findings.

Abbreviations: EM, emergency medicine; G, geriatrics; HO, hematology/oncology; ICU, intensive care unit; IM, internal medicine.