JAMA internal medicine
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JAMA internal medicine · Oct 2018
Multicenter StudyAssessment of the Safety of Discharging Select Patients Directly Home From the Intensive Care Unit: A Multicenter Population-Based Cohort Study.
The safety of discharging adult patients recovering from critical illness directly home from the intensive care unit (ICU) is unknown. ⋯ The discharge of select adult patients directly home from the ICU is common, and it is not associated with increased health care utilization or increased mortality.