Patients/population | Age, sex, surgical status (elective, emergency, none), severity of illness assessment. Availability of high-dependency care within ICU or in discrete unit, ICU type |
Assessment of occupancy | |
Assessment of premature discharge | |
Intervention | Proportion discharged ‘in-hours’. Definition of in-hours |
Discharge destination (level of subsequent care) | |
Proportion of discharges deemed ‘premature’ | |
Comparison | Proportion discharged ‘out-of-hours’. Definition of out-of-hours |
Discharge destination (level of subsequent care) | |
Outcome assessment | Mortality associated with out-of-hours discharge |
Data source for mortality | |
Coding of palliative care patients | |
Missing data | |
Readmission rate | |
Data source for readmission rate associated with out-of-hours discharge | |
Severity score assessment of in-hours versus out-of-hours groups | |
Study | Study design, number of sites, authors, publication year, country, duration |
Primary endpoint (where stated) or main focus (time of discharge versus factors associated with outcome post-discharge, other) | |
Quality assessment | ACROBAT-NRSI criteria |
Sources of participants | |
Follow-up time | |
Completeness of data | |
Adjustment for potential confounders | |
Further subjective assessment in relation to heterogeneity of studies | |
Method of severity of illness assessment | |
Method of risk adjustment | |
Risk-adjusted results |