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Age and risk of in-hospital death — insights from a multihospital study of intensive care patients
Author(s)	Gary E Rosenthal, Peter J Kaboli, Mitchell J Barnett
Journal title	Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, vol 50, no 7,, July 2002
Pages	pp 1205-1212
Keywords	Death rate [statistics] ; In-patients ; Accident & emergency depts ; Terminal care ; Hospital services ; United States of America.
Annotation	In-hospital death rates of 38 intensive care units (ICUs) in 28 hospitals in a large Midwest metropolitan region were compared at successive 5-year intervals. Findings demonstrate incremental increases in the risk of hospital death associated with age that was independent of severity of illness and other prognostic factors. Although the present results may be less biased by differences in treatment goals than studies of in-patients generally, the lower discrimination of physiology scores in older patients suggests that unmeasured factors (e.g. functional status, patient preferences for care, differences in doctor practices) may be of greater prognostic importance in older than in younger patients. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-020822205 A
Classmark	S5: LF7: LD6: LV: LD: 7T
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