Are aggressive treatment strategies less cost-effective for older patients? The case of ventilator support and aggressive care for patients with acute respiratory failure

Medicine & Life Sciences

• Mechanical Ventilators 100%
• Respiratory Insufficiency 89%
• Patient Care 73%
• Costs and Cost Analysis 59%
• Therapeutics 15%
• Cost-Benefit Analysis 14%
• Age Groups 8%
• Survival 6%
• Quality-Adjusted Life Years 6%
• Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome 6%
• Medicare 5%
• Life Expectancy 5%
• Artificial Respiration 5%
• Health Care Costs 5%
• Critical Care 4%
• Pneumonia 4%
• Data Analysis 4%
• Hospitalization 4%
• Quality of Life 3%
• Weights and Measures 3%