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| Determinants of outcome in elderly patients admitted to the intensive care unit | | Author(s) | Saulius Vosylius, Jurate Sipylaite, Juozas Ivaskevicius |
| Journal title | Age and Ageing, vol 34, no 2, March 2005 |
| Pages | pp 157-161 |
| Source | http://www.ageing.oupjournals.org |
| Keywords | Admission [hospitals] ; Ill health ; Therapeutics ; Death ; Eastern Europe. |
| Annotation | Age is thought to be strongly associated with intensive care outcomes, but the relationship may be confounded by many clinical variables. The clinical characteristics of patients aged 65+ admitted to an intensive care unit (ICU) were compared with those in younger patients in this Lithuanian study. Of 2,067 adults patients admitted to the ICU, 51% were aged 65+. Compared to younger patients, older patients were more severely ill on admission, had shock and renal dysfunction. The presence of infection on admission and the incidence rate of infection acquired during stay in the ICU also significantly decreased with age. Hospital mortality increased with age for those aged 75+, and was more than double that of patients aged under 65 (39% versus 19%). Multivariate logistic regression analysis was used to determine the independent risk of hospital mortality for the patients aged 75+. The most important factors independently associated with the highest risk of death are the severity of illness, impaired level of consciousness, and infection. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-050505203 A |
| Classmark | LD:QKH: CH: LL: CW: 7A |
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