Research
Very old patients admitted to intensive care in Australia and New Zealand: a multi-centre cohort analysis
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* Corresponding author: Rinaldo Bellomo rinaldo.bellomo@med.monash.edu.au
1 Department of Intensive Care, Austin Hospital, Studley Road, Heidelberg, VIC 3084, Australia
2 Division of Critical Care Medicine, University of Alberta Hospital, University of Alberta, Walter C Mackenzie Centre, 8440-112 ST NW, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2B7, Canada
3 Department of Intensive Care, Royal Perth Hospital, Wellington Street, Perth, WA 6000 Australia
4 School of Population Health, University of Western Australia, Crawly, Perth, WA 6009, Australia
5 Intensive Therapy Unit, Royal North Shore Hospital, and Northern Clinical School, University of Sydney, St Leonards, Sydney, NSW 2065, Australia
6 Australia New Zealand Intensive Care Society (ANZICS) Clinical Outcomes and Resource Evaluation Centre, Carlton, 10 Ievers Terrace, VIC 3053, Australia
7 Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Alfred Hospital, Commercial Road, Prahran, VIC 3181, Australia
8 Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC 3004 Australia
Critical Care 2009, 13:R45 doi:10.1186/cc7768
See related commentary by Frost and Fowler, http://ccforum.com/content/13/3/145
Published: 1 April 2009Additional files
Additional data file 1:
A Word file summarizing the operational definitions for pre-existing co-morbidities used in the study, based on the chronic health evaluation for APACHE II, APACHE III, and Simplified Acute Physiology Score II systems as outlined in the ANZICS APD data dictionary.
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Additional data file 2:
A Word file containing a table that summarizes the characteristics and crude mortality of patients stratified by deciles of age strata.
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Additional data file 3:
A Word file containing a table that summarizes the age-standardized sex-specific incidence rates of ICU admissions.
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