Population
553 elderly patients admitted to an Intensive Care Unit of a Spanish district hospital between January 2004…
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
in-hospital
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May support not excluding elderly patients from ICU based on age alone; leaves open prospective validation of predictors.
Elderly patients (≥75 years) admitted to the ICU have a relatively low in-hospital mortality rate of 17%, suggesting age alone should not preclude ICU admission.
Reyes et al. (2016) studied this question.
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