Selection of intensive care unit admission criteria for patients aged 80 years and over and compliance of emergency and intensive care unit physicians with the selected criteria: An observational, multicenter, prospective study

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2919-2928

  Garrouste Orgeas, Maité ^a   Boumendil, Ariane ^b   Pateron, Dominique ^c,d   Aergerter, Philippe ^e   Somme, Dominique ^f   Simon, Tabassome ^c,d   Guidet, Bertrand ^b,c,d  

^a SAINT JOSEPH HOSPITAL   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^d HÔPITAL SAINT ANTOINE   (France)

^e HÔPITAL AMBROISE PARÉ   (France)

^f HÔPITAL EUROPÉEN GEORGES POMPIDOU   (France)

Author keywords

Age 80 yrs; Delphi technique; Elderly; Intensive care unit; Triage

Indexed keywords

PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT;

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG USE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FRANCE; HOME ENVIRONMENT; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEOPLASM; PATIENT REFERRAL; PATIENT SELECTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 73449146612     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e3181b019f0     Document Type: Article

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