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. 2022 Jul 30:10.1002/eat.23788. Online ahead of print. doi: 10.1002/eat.23788

TABLE 1.

Admission criteria for ED‐related medical stabilization

Can include any one of the following criteria:
Weight <75% of median BMI
Emergency room physicians may use clinical calculator in the electronic medical record as a screening tool to determine if patient meets inpatient criteria
Registered Dietitian (RD) and Hospitalists should use the following formula during their assessment, as supported by medical literature:
Median BMI = 50% BMI for exact age and height at presentation on the CDC BMI‐for‐age percentiles chart
Continued weight loss despite “intensive” outpatient therapy
Acute weight decline and refusal of food
Hypothermia (<96 F)
Hypotension (SBP <90)
Bradycardia (resting HR <50 bpm while awake and <45 bpm while asleep)
Orthostatic changes in BP >10 mm Hg
Orthostatic changes in HR >20 bpm
Electrolyte abnormalities
Arrhythmia

Note: Adapted from Golden et al. (2015).