Characteristics and outcomes of patients with hematologic malignancies receiving chemotherapy in the intensive care unit.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The objective of this study was to evaluate the short-term and long-term outcomes of adult patients with hematologic malignancies who received chemotherapy in the intensive care unit (ICU).

Methods

This was a retrospective, single-center study comparing the outcomes of patients with hematologic malignancies who received chemotherapy in the ICU with a matched cohort of ICU patients who did not receive chemotherapy. Conditional logistic regression and shared-frailty Cox regression were used to assess short-term (ICU and hospital) mortality and death by 12 months after hospital discharge, respectively.

Results

One hundred eighty-one patients with hematologic malignancies received chemotherapy in the ICU. The ICU and hospital mortality rates were 25% and 42% fo

SUBMITTER: Pastores SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6119607 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature