TY - JOUR
AU - Seppelt I.
AU - Flabouris A.
AU - Thompson C.
AU - Sundararajan K.
AB - <p>
Previous studies have shown that elderly patients (age &gt;/=65 years) are less likely to be admitted to the intensive care unit following a rapid response team call and have high hospital mortality rates. This study has shown that elderly patients have a significantly higher probability of being admitted to an intensive care unit following a rapid response team call at night than during the day. However, at no time are they at greater risk than younger patients of incomplete vital sign recording, a failure to escalate care for acute deterioration or mortality.
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AD - Intensive Care Unit, Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.<br/>Discipline of Acute Care Medicine, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.<br/>School of Medicine, University of Adelaide and Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.<br/>Nepean Hospital and Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
AN - 27981774
BT - Intern Med J
CN - [IF]: 1.644
DP - NLM
ET - 2016/12/17
J2 - Internal medicine journal
LA - eng
LB - AUS<br/>CCT<br/>FY17
M1 - 12
N1 - Sundararajan, K<br/>Flabouris, A<br/>Thompson, C<br/>Seppelt, I<br/>George Institute of Global Health and the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society Clinical Trials Group Point Prevalence study Investigators<br/>Australia<br/>Intern Med J. 2016 Dec;46(12):1440-1442. doi: 10.1111/imj.13281.
N2 - <p>
Previous studies have shown that elderly patients (age &gt;/=65 years) are less likely to be admitted to the intensive care unit following a rapid response team call and have high hospital mortality rates. This study has shown that elderly patients have a significantly higher probability of being admitted to an intensive care unit following a rapid response team call at night than during the day. However, at no time are they at greater risk than younger patients of incomplete vital sign recording, a failure to escalate care for acute deterioration or mortality.
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PY - 2016
SN - 1445-5994 (Electronic)<br/>1444-0903 (Linking)
SP - 1440
EP - 1442
ST - Intern. Med. J.Intern. Med. J.
T2 - Intern Med J
TI - Elderly patients are at high risk of night-time admission to the intensive care unit following a rapid response team call
VL - 46
Y2 - FY17
ER -