Can the Wish to Receive Intensive Treatment in Elderly Patients with Respiratory Tract Infection Be Predicted?

• Published in: Internal Medicine Vol. 57; no. 14; pp. 1989 - 1993
• Main Authors: Hagiwara, Shuichi, Kaneko, Minoru, Aoki, Makoto, Murata, Masato, Ichikawa, Yumi, Nakajima, Jun, Isshiki, Yuta, Sawada, Yusuke, Tamura, Jun'ichi, Oshima, Kiyohiro
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Japan The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine 15.07.2018; Japan Science and Technology Agency
• Subjects: Advance Directives - psychology; Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Asian Continental Ancestry Group - psychology; Coma; Critical Care - psychology; Dementia disorders; elderly; Female; Forecasting; Geriatrics; Humans; Infections; Internal medicine; Japan; living will; Male; Odds Ratio; Older people; Original; Patient Preference - psychology; Patients; Regression analysis; Respiratory tract; Respiratory tract diseases; Respiratory tract infection; Respiratory Tract Infections - therapy; Retrospective Studies; respiratory tract infection; living will; elderly

Objective Almost no Japanese elderly patients have an advance directive (AD). Our aim was to determine whether or not the wish to receive intensive care in elderly patients with respiratory tract infection could be predicted from the prehospital data. Methods In this retrospective study, we reviewed...