1. Characteristics and Clinical Outcomes of Critically Ill Cancer Patients Admitted to Korean Intensive Care Units
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Je Hyeong Kim, Ji Hyun Lee, Soo Jin Na, Ho Cheol Kim, Jin Hwa Lee, Seok Chan Kim, Gyu Rak Chon, Young Joo Lee, Sunghoon Park, Shin Ok Koh, Chae-Man Lim, Jisook Park, Kyeongman Jeon, Won-Il Choi, Jaemin Lim, Jae Yeol Kim, Juhee Cho, Tae Sun Ha, Gee Young Suh, and Younsuck Koh
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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 - 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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- 2018