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... lower cost, likely be- cause they were predictors of earlier ...lower cost and why we observed conflicting results with respect to comorbidity index and illness severity scores as cost- predictive ... See full document

... scored based on the Likert scale of 1-4, with 4 being very important and 1 not important. The questionnaire has 5 factors and the total scores range from 45 to 180. The aspects are support (15 items), comfort (6 ... See full document

... selected elderly aged 80 years and older to the ICU With 1-year mortality rates of 80% or 90%, it seems rea- sonable that some portion of elderly patients may not be best served by ICU ...be admitted ... See full document

... patients admitted to ICU with pneumonia and gender and use of antiplatelet agents were evaluated, given the inconsistent findings from other ...patients admitted to ICU with pneumonia, because previous ... See full document

... available intensive care, the largest cohort of AML patients analyzed to date, we were able to specifically analyze prognosis in this defined patient ...ROC analysis, regard- less of hospital, ... See full document

... Variables included in the final multivariable models were selected according to their physiological relevance and statistical significance in univariate analysis, using a p value threshold of 0.10. Two ... See full document

... the elderly, which is in constant practice in many ICU, whose goal is to avoid withdrawals of venous catheters, tubes and self-infringed ...the elderly without agitation prior ...presented very high ... See full document

... injury. Very old patients, when compared with younger age strata, showed consistently lower crude and adjusted ICU and hospital ...be admitted from chronic care facilities, have longer durations of ... See full document

... (7) outcome of hospitalization (alive or dead); and (8) concur- rent administration of antibiotics and/or heparin. Analysis The information collected from each patient was analyzed by standard descriptive ... See full document

... most elderly Covid-19 patients will receive treatment and care outside of intensive care units owing on the one hand to the very poor prognosis for this population in terms of ... See full document

... more intensive care interventions were also more frequent in ...in intensive care, however, is only scarcely linked to descriptive ...centre analysis could be explained by criteria such ... See full document

... 'intensive care' and 'intensive care units'; in combination with the terms 'prognosis', 'predictor', or ...in very elderly ...in elderly patients such as age, ... See full document

... In this study, data were analyzed by means of RPA, among other methods [10]. RPA is an alternative to more standard model-based regression techniques for multivariable analyses. In contrast to such numeric-based ... See full document

... with care of parents of very preterm babies in the ...of analysis, ensuring that participants were given adequate opportunity to refuse participation in the study, the encouragement of a rapport ... See full document

... victims admitted in intensive care units: comparative study among different ...in Intensive Care Units (ICU), besides identifying which indexes have been the most ... See full document

... The obtained findings for gastrointestinal and infectious complications were similar to the results of the present systematic review, but they were different in terms of length of stay in ICU. Consistent with the results ... See full document

... Participants noted the importance of re- ceiving empathy from medical staff and establishing a respectful and empathic rela- tionship with them. Reviewing previous studies showed that parents of premature infants ... See full document

... the very elderly did not increase except for cardiac surgery patients could be explained by more strict ICU admission policies, due to changing opinions about treatment of the very elderly or ... See full document

... high- intensive care treatments received by older ...intensity care reflects the patient’s treatment prefer- ences and care goals is ... See full document

... patients admitted to ICUs in SHI were older, frailer and more frequently suffered from cognitive impairment, as perhaps suggesting a more liberal admission policy in ...health- care interventions for ... See full document