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SUBMITTER: Oh DK
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6709157 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Oh Dong Kyu DK Na Wonjun W Park Yu Rang YR Hong Sang-Bum SB Lim Chae-Man CM Koh Younsuck Y Huh Jin-Won JW
Medicine 20190501 22
There is ongoing controversy about how to address the growing demand for intensive care for critically ill elderly patients. We investigated resource utilization patterns and mortality rates according to age among critically ill patients.We retrospectively analyzed the medical records of patients admitted to a medical intensive care unit (ICU) in a tertiary referral teaching hospital between July 2006 and June 2015. Patients were categorized into non-elderly (age <65 years, n = 4140), young-elde ...[more]