Octogenarians in the ICU: Are you ever too old?

Critical Care

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  McDermid, Robert C ^a   Bagshaw, Sean M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL ILLNESS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FRAIL ELDERLY; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; LONG TERM CARE; LONG TERM SURVIVAL; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); NOTE; OCTOGENARIAN; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; VERY ELDERLY; AGED; FEMALE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MALE; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS; SURVIVOR;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); SURVIVORS;

EID: 79955389701     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc10018     Document Type: Note

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