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ArticleIntensive care medicine2020

Focus on the frail and elderly: who should have a trial of ICU treatment?

Otavio T Ranzani, Bruno A M P Besen, Margaret S Herridge

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Article in Intensive care medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT07035951 (The VIP-3), which is not on this map. Cited by 15 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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.

NCT07035951 not yet recruitingnot on this mapstarted 2025, after this paper: background citation

The VIP-3 (Very Old Intensive Care Patients) Study: Decision-making in the Older Intensive Care Unit (ICU) Patient: How Are Family Meetings Implemented Across Diverse Cultures in Europe?

TypeobservationalSponsorSt George's, University of LondonRan2025 to 2026Enrolled2,000ConditionsFamily Members, Critical Illness, Frailty, Communication
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

15 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  8. Determinants for hospitalisations, intensive care unit admission and death among 20,293 reported COVID-19 cases in Portugal, March to April 2020.Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin · 2021
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  10. 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
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Otavio T RanzaniPulmonary Division, Laboratório de Pneumologia, Heart Institute (InCor), Hospital das Clinicas HCFMUSP, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Sao Paulo, 2º andar, sala 2144, Av. Dr. Arnaldo, 455, São Paulo, São Paulo, 01246903, Brazil. otavioranzani@yahoo.com.br.ORCID 0000-0002-4677-6862
Bruno A M P BesenMedical Intensive Care Unit, Hospital das Clinicas HCFMUSP, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
Margaret S HerridgeInterdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, Institute of Medical Science, Toronto General Research Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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Frail ElderlyFrailtyAgedGeriatric AssessmentHumansIntensive Care Units

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