Additional outcomes relating to the primary study objective include hospital specialty at admission, in-hospital transfer (eg, admission to ICU), length of stay, and outcome of hospital episode (discharge or death).
Secondary outcomes include in-hospital mortality, that is, death on the same day as discharge; and out-of-hospital mortality following discharge, if feasible.
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