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cord-308677-dr9a3ug0	Hall, William J.	Benefits of Intensive Care Unit Hospitalization for Patients Older than 90 Years	2020-06-27		.txt	text/plain	1395	85	59	Therefore, it is timely that in this current issue of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, Hass and colleagues report on a large-scale clinical review comparing short-term mortality after ICU admission (i.e., ICU and hospital mortality) in the population aged 80 to 90 years versus a cohort in the older than 90 years group. ICU mortality of the patients aged 90 years and older was actually lower (13.8% vs 16.1%; P < .001) and hospital mortality was similar (26.1% vs 25.7%; P < .41) compared with octogenarians. Some studies not focused on nonagenarians have reported that the use of relatively simple screening tools, such as the Clinical Frailty Scale, may be highly predictive of the impact of frailty on acute hospital stays and ICU mortality. A wellrecognized example of a medical meme from prior generations might be the description of pneumonia in older adults as "the old man's friend," first attributed to the influential William Osler in the first edition of his textbook on medicine.	./cache/cord-308677-dr9a3ug0.txt	./txt/cord-308677-dr9a3ug0.txt