Predicting outcomes in very old ICU patients: time to focus on the past?

Hans Flaatten, Sandra Oeyen, Dylan W deLange

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Article in Intensive care medicine, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

Admission to intensive care: a matter of shared decision-making in the very old?European geriatric medicine · 2026
Review
Age as Maestro or Solo Instrument in Opera of Death.Indian journal of critical care medicine : peer-reviewed, official publication of Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine · 2021
Article
Focus on the frail and elderly: who should have a trial of ICU treatment?Intensive care medicine · 2020
Article
The contribution of frailty, cognition, activity of daily life and comorbidities on outcome in acutely admitted patients over 80 years in European ICUs: the VIP2 study.Intensive care medicine · 2020
Article
Cumulative Prognostic Score Predicting Mortality in Patients Older Than 80 Years Admitted to the ICU.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2019
Article

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

Comment on
Premorbid functional status as a predictor of 1-year mortality and functional status in intensive care patients aged 80 years or older.2018

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Hans FlaattenDepartment of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Haukeland University Hospital and Institute of Clinical Medicine, UiB, Bergen, Norway. hans.flaatten@uib.no.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9186-3482

Sandra OeyenDepartment of Intensive Care 1K12IC, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium.

Dylan W deLangeDepartment of Intensive Care Medicine, University Medical Center, University Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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APACHEHospital MortalityHumansIntensive Care Units

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PMID29968014

DOI10.1007/s00134-018-5262-1

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