title: Outcome assessment in elderly patients with critical illness and respiratory failure.
abstract: Although elderly patients tend to have diminished physiologic reserve, the independent impact of age on outcome from critical illness is controversial. Physiologic status is perhaps a more important measure of a patient's underlying health and anticipated response to critical illness. Age, therefore, should not be used as a sole determinant for intensive care department admission.
authors.affiliation: Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Winthrop-University Hospital, Mineola, NY.
authors.forename: D B
authors.initials: DB
authors.lastname: Chalfin
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000375:Aging; D003422:Critical Care; D016638:Critical Illness; D006801:Humans; D007362:Intensive Care Units / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D012131:Respiratory Insufficiency / Q000401:mortality / Q000503:physiopathology; D015996:Survival Rate; D014218:Triage