Research Article
Characteristics and Outcomes of Elderly Patients Refused to ICU
Table 2
Main reason for patient evaluation at first ICU triage.
| ā | Accepted to ICU (57.7%) | Refused to ICU (42.3%) | value accepted versus refused |
| Cardiac arrest | 10 (5.1%) | 10 (7.2%) | 0.433 | Cardiovascular | 112 (57.4%) | 72 (51.8%) | 0.307 | Respiratory | 8 (4.1%) | 22 (15.8%) | 0.000 | Neurologic | 6 (3.1%) | 9 (6.5%) | 0.139 | Intoxications | 3 (1.5%) | 4 (2.9%) | 0.400 | Digestive | 4 (2.1%) | 2 (1.4%) | 0.678 | Surgical | 7 (3.6%) | 2 (1.4%) | 0.231 | Infectious | 43 (22.1%) | 14 (10.1%) | 0.004 | Renal/genitourinary | 0 (0%) | 4 (2.9%) | 0.017 | Others | 2 (1%) | 0 (0%) | 0.513 |
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Data are shown as number (percentage).
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