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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Crit Care Med. 2014 Sep;42(9):2037–2041. doi: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000000401

Table 1.

Results

Total Shifts, n 2190
Shifts with complete data, n (%) 2086 (98.5)
Ward occupancy, median (IQR) 218 (201 – 231)
Combined ICU beds, median (IQR) 61 (58 – 63)
 Medical ICU 16 (15 – 16)
 Non-medical ICU 42 (38 – 44)
Combined ICU bed availability, median (IQR) 5 (3 – 7)
 MICU bed availability 1 (0 – 2)
 Non-MICU bed availability 3 (2 – 5)
Shifts with zero available ICU beds, n (%)
 Any ICU bed 6 (0.3)
 Medical ICU bed 557 (2.7)
 Non-medical ICU bed 65 (3.1)
Total ICU to ward discharges, n 8238
 ICU Discharges per shift, median (IQR) 4 (3–6)
Total ICU readmissions, n 245
 ICU readmission per 100 discharges 2.63
Total Cardiac arrests (n) 117
 Cardiac arrest rate per 10,000 ward patient-shifts 2.63