Performance status (PS): A simple predictor of short-term outcome of cancer patients with solid tumors admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU)

Anticancer Research

Volumn 27, Issue 4 C, 2007, Pages 2945-2948

  Christodoulou, C ^a,b   Rizos, M ^a   Galani, E ^a   Rellos, K ^a   Skarlos, D V ^a   Michalopoulos, A ^a,b  

^a HENRY DUNANT HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b ALFA INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES AIBS   (Greece)

Author keywords

30 day mortality; Cancer patients; ICU; Performance status; Predictive factors; Solid tumors

Indexed keywords

ADULT; APACHE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER STAGING; DEMOGRAPHY; ELECTROCORTICOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENERAL HOSPITAL; GREECE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFECTION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPSIS; SOLID TUMOR;

FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34547732025     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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