Short and Long-Term Outcome of 75 or Over Aged Patients Admitted to Intensive Care Unit (ICU): A Single Center, Observational Study

Methods Single center, retrospective, observational study in an 8-bed adult general ICU (January 2011-June 2014). Patients ≥75 years were divided into two age-groups, 75-84 and ≥85 years old. Characteristics on ICU admission were recorded. Patients hospitalized ≤48 hours were excluded. ICU, hospital, 6-months and 1-year after hospital discharge mortality were calculated. Univariate analysis for categorical variables was performed using Pearson’s x2 or Fisher test and Student t-test for continuous data. Multivariate analysis of the time to ICU mortality was calculated using Cox regression model and for hospital, 6-months and 1-year mortality using logistic regression analysis. P value < 0.05 was considered significant.