Trends in severity of illness on ICU admission and mortality among the elderly

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Fuchs, Lior ^a,b   Novack, Victor ^a,b   McLennan, Stuart ^c   Anthony Celi, Leo ^a,d   Baumfeld, Yael ^b   Park, Shinhyuk ^d   Howell, Michael D ^a   Talmor, Daniel S ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^d HARVARD MIT DIVISION OF HEALTH SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL BED; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PATIENT CARE; POPULATION RESEARCH; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; VERY ELDERLY; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY; HOSPITALIZATION; LENGTH OF STAY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK FACTOR; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TERTIARY CARE CENTER; TRENDS; UTILIZATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LENGTH OF STAY; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT ADMISSION; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL RATE; TERTIARY CARE CENTERS;

EID: 84899431150     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0093234     Document Type: Article

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