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Critical Care August 2005 Vol 9 No 4 Hargrove and Nguyen Review Bench-to-bedside review: Outcome predictions for critically ill patients in the emergency department Jenny Hargrove and H Bryant Nguyen Department of Emergency Medicine, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, California, USA Corresponding author: H Bryant Nguyen, hbnguyen@ Published online: 18 April 2005 Critical Care 2005, 9:376-383 (DOI 10.1186/cc3518) This article is online at /content/9/4/376 ? 2005 BioMed Central Ltd Abstract the ED from 1990 to 1999 [2]. Inpatient telemetry and ICU beds continue to be fully occupi