Intensive care unit treatment in patients > 65 yrs with a first-day sequential organ failure assessment score > 15 is not futile.
Zandstra
Durk F
DF
Bosman
Rob J
RJ
D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D015982:Bias; D003422:Critical Care / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D017052:Hospital Mortality; D006801:Humans; D018447:Medical Futility; D009102:Multiple Organ Failure / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000401:mortality*; D011788:Quality of Life; D019057:Quality-Adjusted Life Years; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D017741:Survivors / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D028761:Withholding Treatment