American Journal of Emergency Medicine
Volume 25, Issue 9 , Pages 1009-1014, November 2007

Risk factors and prognostic predictors of unexpected intensive care unit admission within 3 days after ED discharge

  • Ju-Sing Fan, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei 112, Taiwan, ROC
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  • Wei-Fong Kao, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei 112, Taiwan, ROC
    • Department of Emergency Medicine, School of Medicine, National Yang Ming University, Taipei 112, Taiwan, ROC
  • ,
  • David Hung-Tsang Yen, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei 112, Taiwan, ROC
    • Institute of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, School of Medicine, National Yang Ming University, Taipei 112, Taiwan, ROC
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Emergency Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei 112, Taiwan, ROC. Tel.: +886 2 28757377; fax: +886 2 28757842.
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  • Lee-Ming Wang, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei 112, Taiwan, ROC
  • ,
  • Chung-I Huang, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei 112, Taiwan, ROC
    • Department of Emergency Medicine, School of Medicine, National Yang Ming University, Taipei 112, Taiwan, ROC
  • ,
  • Chen-Hsen Lee, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei 112, Taiwan, ROC
    • Institute of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, School of Medicine, National Yang Ming University, Taipei 112, Taiwan, ROC

Received 11 January 2007; received in revised form 2 March 2007; accepted 2 March 2007.

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PII: S0735-6757(07)00198-2

doi:10.1016/j.ajem.2007.03.005

American Journal of Emergency Medicine
Volume 25, Issue 9 , Pages 1009-1014, November 2007