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Amount of Care per Survivor in Young and Older Patients Hospitalized in Intensive Care Unit: A Retrospective Study* Tarik Khouri,1 Anastasia Kabeshova,2,3,4 Cedric Annweiler,2,3,4,5,6 Alain Mercat,1 Olivier Beauchet,2,3,4 and Nicolas Lerolle1

*The study was performed at Department of Medical Intensive Care and Hyperbaric Medicine, Angers University Hospital, Angers, France. Address correspondence to Nicolas Lerolle, MD, PhD, Department of Medical Intensive Care and Hyperbaric Medicine, Angers University Hospital, 4 rue Larrey, F-49 933 Angers Cedex 9, France. Email: [email protected]

Background.  It is unknown whether the amount of care deployed in the intensive care unit population divided by the number of survivors, that is, amount of care per survivor including the care performed for nonsurvivors, differs between patients older and younger than 75 years of age. Methods.  Data were extracted from the computerized files of all 2,220 patients admitted in a medical intensive care unit between January 2009 and December 2010. Patients ≥75 and

Amount of care per survivor in young and older patients hospitalized in intensive care unit: a retrospective study.

It is unknown whether the amount of care deployed in the intensive care unit population divided by the number of survivors, that is, amount of care pe...
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