June 22, 2024Annals of Intensive CareOpen Access

Prognosticating the outcome of intensive care in older patients—a narrative review

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Current statistical models fail to accurately predict intensive care outcomes for patients aged 80 and older due to marked heterogeneity and complex multi-morbidity.
Narrative review of critical care prognostic models indicates that wide diversity in cultural values and pre-existing functional impairments limits clinical utility.
Managing prognostic uncertainty requires aligning critical care with patient values, where time-limited trials may clarify decisions about life-sustaining treatment.

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Narrative review demonstrates that outcome prediction models underperform in very old intensive care patients, suggesting time-limited trials to guide treatment.

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Beil et al. (2024) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68e63aecb6db6435875ccc49 https://doi.org/10.1186/s13613-024-01330-1

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Narrative review demonstrates that outcome prediction models underperform in very old intensive care patients, suggesting time-limited trials to guide treatment.

Prognosticating the outcome of intensive care in older patients—a narrative review

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Prognosticating the outcome of intensive care in older patients—a narrative review

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