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Characteristics and Clinical Outcomes of Critically Ill Cancer Patients Admitted to Korean Intensive Care Units
- Source :
- Acute and Critical Care, Vol 33, Iss 3, Pp 121-129 (2018)
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- 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 patients 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
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 25866052 and 25866060
- Volume :
- 33
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- Journal :
- Acute and Critical Care
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- edsdoj.924611e74c884a63a59a39602274c57b
- Document Type :
- article
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.4266/acc.2018.00143