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Table 1 Inclusion criteria—examples of qualifying diagnoses

From: Effect of hospital-at-home vs. traditional brick-and-mortar hospital care in acutely ill adults: study protocol for a pragmatic randomized controlled trial

Diagnoses included in filter

Pneumonia, bronchitis with asthma

Respiratory failure

Urinary tract infection (UTI)

Heart failure (HF)

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)

Pulmonary embolism

Migraines, headaches, syncope, fever

Gastroenteritis, pancreatitis

Cellulitis

Hypovolemia/electrolyte disorders

Renal failure

Sepsis, infections, osteomyelitis

Infectious tendonitis/bursitis and autoimmune myositis

Disorders of liver/biliary tract

Re-feeding syndrome/peritoneal infection (non-dialysis)

Pleural effusion (dependent on primary diagnosis)

Respiratory illnesses (interstitial lung disease [ILD], respiratory neoplasms)

Hypertensive emergency

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD; with good functional status/mobile)

Urinary stones

  1. These are examples for qualifying diagnoses; not every patient with these diagnoses is eligible, and additional diagnoses might be considered; the clinical teams will make the decision, i.e., identifying patients at clinical equipoise who can benefit from either ACH or traditional inpatient care, and will refer eligible patients to the study coordinator for consent and randomization
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