Trends in Severity of Illness on ICU Admission and Mortality among the Elderly

Lior Fuchs; Victor Novack; Stuart McLennan; Leo Anthony Celi; Yael Baumfeld; Shinhyuk Park; Michael D. Howell; Daniel S. Talmor

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0093234

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Trends in Severity of Illness on ICU Admission and Mortality among the Elderly

Lior Fuchs ,

* E-mail: liorfuchs@gmail.com

Affiliations Intensive Care Unit, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Clinical Research Center, Soroka University Medical Center and Faculty of Health Science, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheba, Israel
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Victor Novack,

Affiliations Intensive Care Unit, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Clinical Research Center, Soroka University Medical Center and Faculty of Health Science, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheba, Israel
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Stuart McLennan,

Affiliation Institute for Biomedical Ethics, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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Leo Anthony Celi,

Affiliations Intensive Care Unit, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Science and Technology, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Yael Baumfeld,

Affiliation Clinical Research Center, Soroka University Medical Center and Faculty of Health Science, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheba, Israel
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Shinhyuk Park,

Affiliation Harvard-MIT Division of Health Science and Technology, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Michael D. Howell,

Affiliation Intensive Care Unit, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Daniel S. Talmor

Affiliation Intensive Care Unit, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Trends in Severity of Illness on ICU Admission and Mortality among the Elderly

Lior Fuchs,
Victor Novack,
Stuart McLennan,
Leo Anthony Celi,
Yael Baumfeld,
Shinhyuk Park,
Michael D. Howell,
Daniel S. Talmor

Published: April 3, 2014
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0093234

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