The SARS-COV2 pandemic induces tensions on health systems and ethical dilemmas.
Practitioners need help tools to define patients not candidate for ICU admission. A …

Introduction With the spread of COVID-19 epidemic, health plans must be adapted
continuously. There is an urgent need to define the best care courses of patients with COVID …

Introduction Older adults with COVID-19 have disproportionately higher rates of severe
disease and mortality. It is unclear whether this is attributable to age or attendant age …

Background Age has been implicated as the main risk factor for COVID-19-related mortality.
Our objective was to utilize administrative data to build an explanatory model accounting for …

Introduction: To date, mainly due to age-related vulnerability and to coexisting comorbidities,
older patients often face a more severe COVID-19. This study aimed to identify at …

Background COVID-19, caused by the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2
(SARS-CoV-2), has great health implications in older patients, including high mortality. In …

Background There is limited information describing the characteristics and outcomes of
hospitalized older patients with confirmed coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Method …

Purpose To determine predictors of in-hospital mortality related to COVID-19 in oldest-old
patients. Design Single-center observational study. Setting and participants Patients≥ 75 …

Objectives To analyze whether frailty and comorbidities are associated with in-hospital
mortality and discharge to home in older adults hospitalized for coronavirus disease 2019 …

Objectives The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in rapid reorganisations of hospital care. In our
hospital, the geriatrics team introduced the Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS) on the non-ICU …