Publications by authors named "Bertrand Galichon"
Importance: The high mortality rate in critically ill elderly patients has led to questioning of the beneficial effect of intensive care unit (ICU) admission and to a variable ICU use among this population.
Objective: To determine whether a recommendation for systematic ICU admission in critically ill elderly patients reduces 6-month mortality compared with usual practice.
Design, Setting, And Participants: Multicenter, cluster-randomized clinical trial of 3037 critically ill patients aged 75 years or older, free of cancer, with preserved functional status (Index of Independence in Activities of Daily Living ≥4) and nutritional status (absence of cachexia) who arrived at the emergency department of one of 24 hospitals in France between January 2012 and April 2015 and were followed up until November 2015.
Aims : emergency Departments represent unique and complex entities that must be understood by the public. Objectives : to increase, by setting up screens, the number of information integrated by the patients during their waiting before medical care. Method : Cohort, before/after implementation of information screens, prospective, evaluative, monocentric study.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: In France, patients coming from sub-Saharan Africa, French Indies and French Guiana are frequently missed HIV, HBV and HCV diagnosis, despite high prevalence of these infections.
Methods: Targeted proposal of HIV, HBV and HCV screening, using sensitive enzyme immunoassays, to any adult patient originating of the above mentioned areas, with/without medical insurance, consulting for a medical issue in outpatients' department. Monocentric prospective study in a hospital in Paris during 28 consecutive days in 2010.