Highlights
- •Can patients who do not need hospital admission be reliably identified?
- •This paper discusses the possibility of developing a “Safe to Discharge” Score.
- •The collection of bedside data that is current, complete and correct will be needed
Abstract
If scores or algorithms were developed that quickly identified patients who are bound
to have 100% survival, if even only for a few days, more patients could be safely
discharged from emergency department, this eliminating the risks of hospitalization
for many patients. This hypothesis proposes that it is possible to develop a “Universal
Safe to Discharge Score”, and suggests how it might be developed and validated.
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Article info
Publication history
Published online: July 24, 2019
Accepted:
July 20,
2019
Received in revised form:
July 15,
2019
Received:
June 14,
2019
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