title: [Assessment of elderly intensive care patients].
abstract: The standard geriatric basic assessment validly presents the functional limitations of elderly patients. The prognosis estimation of elderly people is less precise using the instruments for cardiovascular and preoperative risk evaluation or by the intensive care medicine scores on organ failure. An adaptation and further development of score systems could clarify these vague areas.
authors.affiliation: Klinik für Innere Medizin und Geriatrie, Diakonissenkrankenhaus Dessau gGmbH, Gropiusallee 3, 06846, Dessau-Roßlau, Deutschland. MMeisel@dkd-dessau.de
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Meisel
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Nuding
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Müller-Werdan
mesh_terms: D000203:Activities of Daily Living / Q000145:classification; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy; D015897:Comorbidity; D015577:Geriatric Assessment / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007362:Intensive Care Units; D008875:Middle Aged; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic; D009102:Multiple Organ Failure / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy; D011300:Preoperative Care; D011379:Prognosis; D018570:Risk Assessment