Trends in Severity of Illness on ICU Admission and Mortality among the Elderly

BACKGROUND: There is an increase in admission rate for elderly patients to the ICU. Mortality rates are lower when more liberal ICU admission threshold are compared to more restrictive threshold. We sought to describe the temporal trends in elderly admissions and outcomes in a tertiary hospital befo...

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Autores principales: Fuchs, Lior, Novack, Victor, McLennan, Stuart, Celi, Leo Anthony, Baumfeld, Yael, Park, Shinhyuk, Howell, Michael D., Talmor, Daniel S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3974713/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24699251
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0093234

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3974713/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24699251
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0093234

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