Long-Term Outcome of Critically Ill Advanced Cancer Patients Managed in an Intermediate Care Unit.

ABSTRACT:

Background

To analyze the long-term outcomes for advanced cancer patients admitted to an intermediate care unit (ImCU), an analysis of a do not resuscitate orders (DNR) subgroup was made.

Methods

A retrospective observational study was conducted from 2006 to January 2019 in a single academic medical center of cancer patients with stage IV disease who suffered acute severe complications. The Simplified Acute Physiology Score 3 (SAPS 3) was used as a prognostic and severity score. In-hospital mortality, 30-day mortality and survival after hospital discharge were calculated.

Results

Two hundred and forty patients with stage IV cancer who attended at an ImCU were included. In total, 47.5% of the cohort had DNR orders. The two most frequent reasons for admission were sepsi

SUBMITTER: Fernandez Ros N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9225024 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature