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Critical illness at extreme age: outcomes and clinical characteristics of centenarian intensive care unit (ICU) admissions in Australia and New Zealand
Authors' conclusion
In-hospital mortality was relatively low and more strongly associated with acute illness severity than with chronological age.
Study context
- Population
- Patients aged ≥100 years with index ICU admission, ANZICS Adult Patient Database, 2010–2024
- Participants
- 460 centenarians
- Outcome
- In-hospital mortality
Methodological detailsbinational registry
- Binational registry
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
In-hospital mortality
13.7%
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Secondary outcomes
ICU mortality
- ICU mortality
- 3.9%
Discharge destination and post-discharge survival (hospital survivors)
- Discharged home
- 54.1%
- Median post-discharge survival (months)
- 21.9
Discrimination of ANZROD for mortality (vs SOFA and APACHE III)
- ANZROD AUROC, ICU mortality
- 0.90
- ANZROD AUROC, hospital mortality
- 0.82
- ANZROD superior discrimination vs SOFA and APACHE III
Clinical characteristics
- Median age, years (IQR 100.3-102.0)
- 100.9
- Female
- 67.2%
- Surgical admissions
- 67.2%
- Treatment limitation orders
- 33.9%
- Invasive mechanical ventilation
- 10.3%
Original publication
Critical illness at extreme age: outcomes and clinical characteristics of centenarian ICU admissions in Australia and New Zealand. Crit Care. Published 25 March 2026. doi:10.
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