Trends in Severity of Illness on ICU Admission and Mortality among the Elderly

Trends in Severity of Illness on ICU Admission and Mortality among the Elderly

Background: There is an increase in admission rate for elderly patients to the ICU. Mortality rates are lower when more liberal ICU admission threshold are compared to more restrictive threshold. We sought to describe the temporal trends in elderly admissions and outcomes in a tertiary hospital befo...

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Main Authors: Fuchs, Lior (Author), Novack, Victor (Author), McLennan, Stuart (Author), Baumfeld, Yael (Author), Park, Shinhyuk (Contributor), Howell, Michael D. (Author), Talmor, Daniel S. (Author), Celi, Leo Anthony G. (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Institute for Medical Engineering & Science (Contributor), Harvard University- (Contributor)
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Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science, 2014-06-30T12:57:31Z.
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