title: Admission, discharge, and triage in critical care. Principles and practice.
abstract: This article reviews the practices of admission, discharge, and triage to or from a special care unit and how they differ based on unit type and patient load. The need to solve the excess patient/insufficient resources dilemma is also addressed.
authors.affiliation: Surgical Intensive Care Unit, Tufts University, Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, MA.
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Dawson
mesh_terms: D003422:Critical Care / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006801:Humans; D007362:Intensive Care Units / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D010343:Patient Admission; D010351:Patient Discharge / Q000592:standards*; D014218:Triage / Q000592:standards*; D014481:United States