Table 4.
Survivors and nonsurvivors with limitation of treatment and mechanical ventilation therapy based on Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS) category among patients aged 65 years or older.
| CFS category | Survivors |
Nonsurvivors |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | Limitation of treatmenta | Mechanical ventilation | n | Limitation of treatmenta | Mechanical ventilation | |
| Fit (levels 1–3) | 33 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 3 |
| Vulnerable (level 4) | 19 | 15 | 0 | 15 | 11 | 2 |
| Mildly frail (level 5) | 21 | 17 | 0 | 17 | 16 | 0 |
| Moderately to severely frail (level 6 or 7) | 7 | 7 | 0 | 26 | 26 | 0 |
Data are presented as the number of patients.
a
Refers to patients for whom intubation and mechanical ventilation was withheld.