An emergency department-based ICU improves survival without raising costs, study finds

The model of an ICU housed within an emergency department has been found to both decrease mortality rates and ICU admission rates for ED patients. A new study finds that the ED-ICU model achieves both of those measures without raising costs. Researchers say the model can be adopted by systems across the country to improve quality of care.

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