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Octogenarians in the ICU: are you ever too old?
Long-term morbidity and mortality rates for older patients admitted to the ICU remain substantial. In this issue of Critical Care, Roch and colleagues describe a retrospective study evaluating factors associated with survival and quality-of-life of octogenarians (aged ≥80 years) admitted to a medica...
Autores principales: | McDermid, Robert C, Bagshaw, Sean M |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2011
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3221983/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21371344 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/cc10018 |
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