About this trial
The present study aims to develop a predictive model to identify elderly patients with the highest likelihood of mortality upon admission to an intensive care unit.
Eligibility criteria
This trial does not accept healthy volunteersQualifiers
Men and women aged 75 or older.
Admission to an ICU from the Emergency Department.
Availability of or possibility to contact a participant's informant.
Informed consent for participation in the study, either by the participant or a valid legal representative.
Disqualifiers
Patients transferred to the Emergency Department from a hospital ward.
Patients who die within the first 24 hours of ICU admission.
Patients admitted to Step-Down Units.
Participation in another clinical study involving an intervention, procedure, or visit schedule that is incompatible with the present study.
Trial population
Patients admitted to a Intensive Care Unit
Trial design
Cohort
Prospective
Treatments tested in this trial
laboratory biomarker analysis
Other interventionResults of laboratory biomarker analysis will be analyzed as predictors for mortality
Treatment groups
Trial outcomes
Primary outcomes
mortality
mortality on day 90 from admission to Intensive Care Unit
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