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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 May 4.
Published in final edited form as: Heart Lung. 2014 Sep 26;44(1):45–49. doi: 10.1016/j.hrtlng.2014.08.010

Table 2.

Potentially eligible patients identified through billing data and further screened for being awake, alert, and attempting to communicate for at least one nursing shift, SPEACS-2 study 2009–2011.

Unit Billing dataa EMR screened Inclusion criteria not met Assessed for “awake” criteria Met “awake” criteria Proportion
Transplant 1240 591 76 515 240 46.60%
NeuroTrauma 520 491 73 418 240 57.42%
Neurological 833 673 85 588 240 40.82%
Trauma 1064 410 67 343 240 69.97%
Cardiovascular 1014 397 49 348 240 68.97%
Medical 805 525 66 459 240 52.29%
Total 5476 3087 416 2671 1440 53.91%
a

mechanical ventilation for >2 days, and first ICU admission during incident hospital stay; EMR – electronic medical record.