Where internal medical patients receive intensive interventions: results from a tertiary-care hospital in Israel.

"Declarations Ethics approval and consent to participateThis study was reviewed by the research ethics committee of Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel which approved this study. In this retrospective study, the committee waived the need for informed consent for participation. To protect patient confidentiality, all personal information has been encrypted and de-identified. Approval number—SZ-0361-21; Date – 01/11/2021. Study procedures were followed in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible institutional committee on human experimentation, and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975. Consent for publicationNot applicable. Competing interestsThe authors have no competing interests to declare. Competing interests The authors have no competing interests to declare."

"Funding This research was funded by The Israel Institute for Health Policy Research, Grant 2021/15 (Rose and Brammli-Greenberg, PIs)."