Why the study?
Does intensive care utilization impact mortality, costs, and quality of life in critically ill elderly patients?
Population
Critically ill elderly patients
Design
Review
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Clinicians should not use age alone for ICU triage in elderly patients; leaves open the need for validated multidimensional prognostic models.
Does intensive care utilization impact mortality, costs, and quality of life in critically ill elderly patients?
Age alone should not be used as the sole predictor of mortality and quality of life outcomes for critically ill elderly patients in the ICU.
Lakshmipathi Chelluri (1995) studied this question.
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