... nobreach of privacy or anonymity. The Austin Hospital is anurban, academic, teaching, tertiary care hospital with 800beds that is based in the city of Melbourne, Australia. The ED of the Austin ... on history, vital signs, laboratoryresults, treatment and details of outcome using the central lab-oratory database, the ICU patient information database, the hospital admissions and discharges ... database (which recordsall deaths) and the hospital cardiac arrests database. The severity of illness of the study patients was calculated using the Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation(APACHE)...