Characteristics and outcome of rapid response team patients ≥75?years old: a prospective observational cohort study

摘要

Background Rapid response teams (RRTs) attend severely ill general ward patients whose average 30-day mortality is near 30%. A major part of RRT patients are over 75?years old, but there are no studies on the characteristics and outcome of this geriatric RRT population. We compared the characteristics and outcome of geriatric RRT sub-population with the RRT patients Methods Prospective three-year observational cohort study of adult RRT patients in Tampere University Hospital, Finland . After identifying independent RFs for 30-day mortality among RRT patients with multivariate logistic regression, we further studied the impact of the accumulation of these RFs among geriatric RRT patients who had no limitations of medical treatment. Results A total of 1372 patients were reviewed 1722 times. Geriatric patients ( n =?449, 33%), when compared to non-geriatric patients, had higher 30-day (33% vs. 21%, respectively; p p Conclusions One-third of patients reviewed by RRT were ≥75?years old, and age statistics were comparable to previous RRT studies suggesting that this is the case globally. Outcome of geriatric RRT patients is poorer as compared with RRT patients