The authors examined 27.8 million elderly Medicare beneficiaries who required ICU care between 1996 and 2010. They noted declines in admissions with a primary diagnosis of cardiovascular disease (coronary artery disease and congestive heart failure) and an increase in infectious diseases with explicitly labeled sepsis, increasing from the 11th-ranked diagnosis in 1996 to the top-ranked primary discharge diagnosis in 2010.This is really not surprising since doctors and hospitals have been facilitating the creation of antibiotic resistant microbes for seventy years.
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