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Characteristics and Clinical Outcomes of Critically Ill Cancer Patients Admitted to Korean Intensive Care Units
- Source :
- Acute and Critical Care, Acute and Critical Care, Vol 33, Iss 3, Pp 121-129 (2018)
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- The Korean Society of Critical Care Medicine, 2018.
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Abstract
- Background: The objective of this study was to investigate the characteristics and clinical outcomes of critically ill cancer patients admitted to intensive care units (ICUs) in Korea. Methods: This was a retrospective cohort study that analyzed prospective collected data from the Validation of Simplified Acute Physiology Score 3 (SAPS3) in Korean ICU (VSKI) study, which is a nationwide, multicenter, and prospective study that considered 5,063 pa tients from 22 ICUs in Korea over a period of 7 months. Among them, patients older than 18 years of age who were diagnosed with solid or hematologic malignancies prior to admission to the ICU were included in the present study. Results: During the study period, a total of 1,762 cancer patients were admitted to the ICUs and 833 of them were deemed eligible for analysis. Six hundred fifty-eight (79%) had solid tumors and 175 (21%) had hematologic malignancies, respectively. Respiratory problems (30.1%) was the most common reason leading to ICU admission. Patients with hematologic malignancies had higher Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (12 vs. 8, P
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- medicine.medical_specialty
business.industry
medicine.medical_treatment
Mortality rate
lcsh:Medical emergencies. Critical care. Intensive care. First aid
Retrospective cohort study
lcsh:RC86-88.9
Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine
Critical Care Nursing
Malignancy
medicine.disease
mortality
critical care
Intensive care
Internal medicine
Epidemiology
cancer
Medicine
Original Article
epidemiology
Renal replacement therapy
Simplified Acute Physiology Score
business
Prospective cohort study
hematologic neoplasm
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Details
- ISSN :
- 25866060 and 25866052
- Volume :
- 33
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Acute and Critical Care
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....aca83f02fae1be4a9b81827a73e9ea54