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Type: Artigo de Periódico
Title: The impact of the intensive care admission criteria for elderly mortality
Authors: Marco Túlio Gualberto Cintra
Dinah Belém
Edgar Nunes de Moraes
Fernando Antônio Botoni
Maria Aparecida Bicalho
Abstract: OBJECTIVE: To review systematically the influence of admission criteria on the mortality of elderly patients under intensive therapy. METHODS: We performed a search on the PUBMED and BIREME databases by using the MeSH and DeCS terms “intensive care units”, “patient admission”, and “aged” in Portuguese, English, and Spanish. Only prospective and retrospective cohort studies were included. We analyzed the severity score, type of hospital admission, quality of life, co-morbidities, functionality, and elderly institutionalization. RESULTS: Of the 1,276 articles found, thirteen were selected after evaluation of the inclusion and exclusion criteria. It was observed that the severity score, functionality, and co-morbidities had an impact on mortality. It was not possible to determine which severity score was more suitable. CONCLUSION: We suggest that analysis of functionality, co-morbidities, and severity scores should be conducted to estimate the elderly mortality in relation to the admission to intensive care units.
Subject: Seleção de Pacientes
Idosos
Cuidados Críticos
Mortalidade hospitalar
Unidades de Terapia Intensiva
language: eng
metadata.dc.publisher.country: Brasil
Publisher: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Publisher Initials: UFMG
metadata.dc.publisher.department: MED - DEPARTAMENTO DE CLÍNICA MÉDICA
Rights: Acesso Aberto
metadata.dc.identifier.doi: 10.1590/1806-9282.65.7.1015
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1843/57583
Issue Date: 19-Apr-2019
metadata.dc.url.externa: http://www.scielo.br/pdf/ramb/v65n7/1806-9282-ramb-65-7-1015.pdf
metadata.dc.relation.ispartof: Revista da Associação Médica Brasileira
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