The Intuition Behind the 0.1% of People Dying Within Seven Days of Being Seen in the Emergency Department

In a study, the presumption is that if these doctors had instead kept the patients in the hospital, their outcomes might have been different. But of course, you can't admit everyone to the hospital and there are many under-resourced hospitals where they probably can't admit as many people as they'd want to. "We found a pretty striking pattern where those were the hospitals where the near-term death rates really spiked," he says.