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Management and outcomes in critically ill nonagenarian versus octogenarian patients

Management and outcomes in critically ill nonagenarian versus octogenarian patients

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BACKGROUND: Intensive care unit (ICU) patients age 90 years or older represent a growing subgroup and place a huge financial burden on health care resources despite the benefit being unclear. This leads to ethical problems. The present investigation assessed the differences in outcome between nonagenarian and octogenarian ICU patients. METHODS: We included 7900 acutely admitted older critically ill patients from two large, multinational studies. The primary outcome was 30-day-mortality, and the secondary outcome was ICU-mortality. Baseline characteristics consisted of frailty assessed by the Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS), ICU-management, and outcomes were compared between octogenarian (80-89.9 years) and nonagenarian (> 90 years) patients. We used multilevel logistic regression to evaluate differences between octogenarians and nonagenarians. RESULTS: The nonagenarians were 10% of the entire cohort. They experienced a higher percentage of frailty (58% vs 42%; p 

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OrganisatieHanze
Gepubliceerd inBMC Geriatrics BioMed Central, Vol. 21, Uitgave: 1
Datum2021-10-19
TypeArtikel
DOI10.1186/s12877-021-02476-4
TaalEngels

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