Outcomes of critically ill older adults with COVID-19: a multicentre retrospective cohort study
Authors' conclusion
Older critically ill COVID-19 patients had long ICU and hospital stays, and approximately half died in hospital.
Study context
- Population
- Patients ≥ 65 yr admitted to one of five Toronto intensive care unit (ICUs) with a primary diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2 infection, 11 March 2020–30 June 2021
- Participants
- 273 patients · 5 ICUs
- Exposure
- Nonsurvivors vs survivors
- Nonsurvivorsn = 131
- Survivorsn = 142reference
- Outcome
- In-hospital mortality
Methodological detailsmulticentre, consecutive patients
- Multicentre
- Consecutive patients
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
Hospital survival
Survived hospital stay
142
52.0%
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Further findings
Age
P = 0.03
Female sex
P = 0.01
Hospital and ICU LOS; invasive mechanical ventilation
- Hospital LOS, median [IQR]
- 19 [11-35] days
- ICU LOS, median [IQR]
- 9 [5-22] days
- Required invasive mechanical ventilation
- 164 (60.1%)
- No significant differences in ICU LOS or duration of invasive mechanical ventilation between survivors and nonsurvivors
Original publication
Outcomes of critically ill older adults with COVID-19: a multicentre retrospective cohort study. Can J Anaesth. Published 11 July 2023. doi:10.
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