Effect of age on survival of critically ill patients with cancer

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 715-721

  Soares, Márcio ^a,b   Carvalho, Marilia S ^c   Salluh, Jorge I F ^a,b,d   Ferreira, Carlos G ^a   Luiz, Ronir R ^b   Rocco, José R ^b   Spector, Nelson ^b  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE CÂNCER   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^c INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^d Hospital Barra D'Or   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cancer; Elderly; Intensive care; Outcome; Survival

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; BREAST CANCER; CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMORBIDITY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LEUKEMIA; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UROGENITAL TRACT CANCER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAZIL; COMORBIDITY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASMS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 33644600778     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000201883.05900.3F     Document Type: Article

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