ICU admission characteristics and mortality rates among elderly and very elderly patients

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1654-1661

  Fuchs, Lior ^a   Chronaki, Catherine E ^b   Park, Shinhyuk ^c   Novack, Victor ^a,d   Baumfeld, Yael ^d   Scott, Daniel ^e   McLennan, Stuart ^f   Talmor, Daniel ^a   Celi, Leo ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas Science and Technology Park of Crete   (Greece)

^c Northeastern University   (United States)

^d BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

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

^f UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Critical care; Elderly; Long term mortality; Outcomes

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALCOHOL ABUSE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; GENDER; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART FAILURE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LIVER FAILURE; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PATIENT MONITORING; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOSIS; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; SCORING SYSTEM; SURVIVOR; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE; VERY ELDERLY;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CRITICAL CARE; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT ADMISSION; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 85027945562     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: 14321238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-012-2629-6     Document Type: Article

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