Patient Characteristics and Clinical and Economic Outcomes Associated with Unplanned Medical and Surgical Intensive Care Unit Admissions: A Retrospective Analysis.

Purpose: To characterize medical and surgical patient characteristics, as well as clinical and economic outcomes, associated with unplanned intensive care unit (ICU) admissions.

Patients And Methods: This was a retrospective matched cohort analysis that utilized the PINC AI Healthcare Database, which collects deidentified data from 25% of United States (US) hospital admissions. Discharge records were assessed for medical and surgical admissions in 2021.