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Title
ICU admission characteristics and mortality rates among elderly and very elderly patients.
Authors
Fuchs, Lior; Chronaki, Catherine E; Park, Shinhyuk; Novack, Victor; Baumfeld, Yael; Scott, Daniel; McLennan, Stuart; Talmor, Daniel; Celi, Leo
Abstract
The effect of advanced age per se versus severity of chronic and acute diseases on the short- and long-term survival of older patients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) remains unclear.
Publication
Intensive care medicine, 2012, Vol 38, Issue 10, p1654