Do frailty and delirium increase the risk of hospital mortality in older adults admitted to intensive care?
Identifying frailty and delirium in older ICU patients is important as they significantly increase hospital mortality risk.
Frailty and delirium significantly increase the risk of hospital mortality. Therefore, it is important to identify patients who are frail and institute measures to reduce the risk of adverse events in the ICU such as delirium and, importantly, to discuss these issues in an open and empathetic way with the patient and their families.
Sánchez et al. (Thu,) studied this question.
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