Assessment of mortality and performance status in critically ill cancer patients: A retrospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Given clinicians' frequent concerns about unfavourable outcomes, Intensive Care Unit (ICU) triage decisions in acutely ill cancer patients can be difficult, as clinicians may have doubts about the appropriateness of an ICU admission. To aid to this decision making, we studied the survival and performance status of cancer patients 2 years following an unplanned ICU admission.

Materials and methods

This was a retrospective cohort study in a large tertiary referral university hospital in the Netherlands. We categorized all adult patients with an unplanned ICU admission in 2017 into two groups: patients with or without an active malignancy. Descriptive statistics, Pearson's Chi-square tests and the Mann-Whitney U tests were used to evaluate the primary objective 2-y

SUBMITTER: van der Zee EN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8195393 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature