Equity of access to critical care among elderly patients in Scotland: A national cohort study

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 3-13

  Docherty, Annemarie B ^a   Anderson, Niall H ^a   Walsh, Timothy S ^a   Lone, Nazir I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

admission; cohort studies; critical care; elderly; epidemiology; outcomes

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ACUTE DISEASE; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY ASSESSMENT; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL BED UTILIZATION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTENSIVE CARE; LENGTH OF STAY; LONG TERM SURVIVAL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PNEUMONIA; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; SHORT TERM SURVIVAL; SOCIAL STATUS; STANDARDIZATION; TREATMENT DURATION; UNITED KINGDOM; VERY ELDERLY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MIDDLE AGED; SCOTLAND; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; CRITICAL CARE; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCOTLAND;

EID: 84951123866     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000001377     Document Type: Article

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