Associations between hospital occupancy, intensive care unit transfer delay and hospital mortality.

Purpose: Hospital occupancy (HospOcc) pressures often lead to longer intensive care unit (ICU) stay after physician recognition of discharge readiness. We evaluated the relationships between HospOcc, extended ICU stay, and patient outcomes.

Materials And Methods: 7-year retrospective cohort study of 8500 alive discharge encounters from 4 adult ICUs of a tertiary hospital.