Figure 1.

Percentage of admitted patients as per priority. Period 1: between November 2015 to January 2017 (no intensivist staffing); period 2: between February 2017 to February 2018 (intensivists staffing); Priority 1, patients who required life support for organ failure, intensive monitoring, and therapies that are only available in the intensive care unit (ICU) environment; priority 2, patients who required active monitoring and immediate treatment at any time with no limits on the extent of the therapy; priority 3, patients who could be managed at a lower level of care than the ICU; priority 4, patients with low or no probability of recovery/survival.