Is the Critical Care Resuscitation Unit Sustainable: A 5-Year Experience of a Beneficial and Novel Model

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(a) Total annual non-trauma adult transfers from other hospitals to our academic medical center. The y-axis represents the number of patients as a percentage of the total adult transfers to our medical center, which is set as 100%. The x-axis shows the name of each unit per year. The number on each bar represents the number of transfers. Abbreviations: CCRU, critical care resuscitation unit; ED, emergency department; ICU, intensive care unit; UMMC, University of Maryland Medical Center. (b). Total annual non-trauma adult transfers from other hospitals to any one of our academic medical center’s adult ICUs. The y-axis represents the number of patients as a percentage of the total adult transfers to any ICU at our medical center, which is set as 100%. The x-axis shows the name of each unit per year. The number on each bar represents the number of transfers. Abbreviations: CCRU, critical care resuscitation unit; ED, emergency department; ICU, intensive care unit; UMMC, University of Maryland Medical Center.

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