Effect of intensivist involvement on clinical outcomes in patients with advanced lung cancer admitted to the intensive care unit.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Intensive care unit (ICU)-related mortality for lung cancer is ranked highest among the solid tumors and little information exists on the role of intensivists on clinical outcomes. This study aimed to elucidate the intensivist's contribution toward clinical outcomes.

Materials and methods

Data of advanced lung cancer patients, including stage IIIB or IV non-small cell lung cancer and extensive-stage small cell lung cancer, admitted to the ICU from 2005 to 2016 were analyzed. Multivariate logistic regression was performed to determine variables associated with ICU and in-hospital mortality. Autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) for time-series was used to assess the intensivist's impact.

Results

Of 264 patients, 85 (32.2%) were admitted to the ICU be

SUBMITTER: Song JH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6373899 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature