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Intensive care admission of cancer patients: a comparative analysis
- Source :
- Cancer medicine, 4(7), 966-976. John Wiley and Sons Ltd, Cancer Medicine, 4(7), 966-976, Cancer Medicine
- Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- The aim of this study was to obtain insight into which proportion of cancer patients is admitted to an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and how their survival, demographic, and clinical characteristics relate to cancer patients not admitted to the ICU. Data from patients registered with cancer between 2006 and 2011 in four hospitals in the Netherlands were linked to the Dutch National Intensive Care Evaluation registry. About 36,860 patients with cancer were identified, of whom 2,374 (6.4%) were admitted to the ICU. Fifty-six percent of ICU admissions were after surgery, whereas 44% were for medical reasons. The risk for ICU admission was highest among cancer patients treated with surgery either alone or combined with chemotherapy and/or radiation therapy. Only 80 of 1,073 medical ICU admissions (3.3%) were for cancer-specific reasons. Although more women (54.0%) than men were registered with cancer, the proportion of male cancer patients admitted to an ICU was much higher (9.3 vs. 4.0%, P
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
Cancer Research
Pediatrics
medicine.medical_specialty
Critical Care
medicine.medical_treatment
health care facilities, manpower, and services
Kaplan-Meier Estimate
survival
law.invention
Patient Admission
Sex Factors
law
Considered futile
Neoplasms
Intensive care
Outcome Assessment, Health Care
Humans
Medicine
cancer
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging
Intensive care admission
Registries
Aged
Netherlands
intensive care
Aged, 80 and over
Chemotherapy
business.industry
Clinical Cancer Research
Cancer
Middle Aged
medicine.disease
Intensive care unit
Icu admission
Radiation therapy
Intensive Care Units
Oncology
gender differences
Population Surveillance
Emergency medicine
Age differences
Female
business
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 20457634
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Cancer medicine, 4(7), 966-976. John Wiley and Sons Ltd, Cancer Medicine, 4(7), 966-976, Cancer Medicine
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....28901b462b18095575ccd17d1e91734c