Admission decisions in an adolescent unit

Epidemic self-injury in an adolescent unit.

Development of an algorithm to aid triage decisions for intensive care unit admission: a clinical vignette and retrospective cohort study

BACKGROUND Intensive care unit (ICU) admission triage is performed routinely and is often based solely on clinical judgment, which could mask biases. A computerized algorithm to aid ICU triage decisions was developed to classify patients into the Society of Critical Care Medicine's prioritization system. In this study, we sought to evaluate the reliability and validity of this algorithm. METH...

Chronic ventilator unit admission criteria.

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Clinical Predictors of Intensive Care Unit Admission for Asthmatic Children

IntroductionChildren with severe asthma attack are a challenging group of patients who could be difficult to treat and leading to significant morbidity and mortality. Asthma attack severity is qualitatively estimated as mild, moderate and severe attacks and respiratory failure based on conditions such as respiration status, feeling of dyspnea, and the degree of unconsciousness. part of which ar...

Belmont Adolescent Unit

pitals?large enough to carry a full range of facilities yet small enough for a personal rather than an institutional atmosphere. It is easily accessible, on the edge of greater London. There was no school available, so we confined ourselves to patients over 15 years old. For the purpose of this article, I have confined myself to the 97 girls and 84 boys, up to the age of 18, admitted between 19...