TURKISH JOURNAL OF GERIATRICS-TURK GERIATRI DERGISI, vol.21, no.4, pp.515-521, 2018 (SCI-Expanded)
Introduction: With increasing life expectancy, admission of elderly patients to intensive care units is increasing. We aimed to determine profiles, admission causes and mortality rates of elderly patients who were admitted from the emergency department to the intensive care unit. Because the cost of intensive care hospitalisation is high, this data may be important when determining elderly patients health policies.