You never know - One of your patients with cancer might surprise you

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 965-966

  Raoof, Nina D ^a   Groeger, Jeffrey S ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Intensive care unit; Outcome; Triage

Indexed keywords

ACUTE LEUKEMIA; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; EDITORIAL; EMPHYSEMA; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTUBATION; LIVER FAILURE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL RATE;

COMORBIDITY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; NEOPLASMS; PATIENT ADMISSION; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TRIAGE;

EID: 33947156426     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000257367.13185.6C     Document Type: Editorial

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