The American journal of emergency medicine
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Am J Emerg Med
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Every hospital admission is associated with healthcare costs and a risk of adverse events. The need to identify patients who do not require hospitalization has emerged with the profound increase in hospitalization rates due to infectious diseases during the last decades, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study aimed to identify predictors of safe early discharge (SED) in patients presenting to the emergency department (ED) with a suspected infection meeting the Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (SIRS) criteria. ⋯ We developed and validated a model to identify patients with an infection at the ED who can be safely discharged early.