ICU Resource Use and Outcomes for Elderly Patients in China, 2014-2021

A Chinese tertiary hospital dataset contains records for 31,535 ICU patients aged 16 and over admitted from January 2014 to December 2021. The data compares trends in admissions, clinical outcomes, and resource use across three age groups: elderly (≥80 years), older (65–79 years), and younger (16–64 years). It was created by Xiaohui Zhu and is available under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyzing trends in ICU admission rates over time based on the 2014-2021 study period
• Comparing clinical outcomes like hospital mortality between age cohorts based on the described mortality rates
• Studying resource utilization patterns, such as transfusion and ventilation needs, based on the described interventions
• Modeling risk-adjusted mortality improvements over time based on the reported relative reductions

Strengths

• Includes 31,535 patient records from a tertiary referral hospital
• Covers an 8-year longitudinal period from 2014 to 2021
• Provides specific comparative statistics, such as a 31.8% relative decrease in elderly admissions

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Data is from a single hospital in China, which may limit generalizability

Provenance

Source

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Collection Method

Retrospective analysis of ICU patient records.

Time Range

January 2014 to December 2021

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-15 17:28:51; freshness should be verified

Geography

A tertiary referral hospital in China