Critically ill patients with cancer and sepsis: Clinical course and prognostic factors

Journal of Critical Care

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 301-307

  Rosolem, Maíra M ^a   Rabello, Lígia S C F ^a   Lisboa, Thiago ^b   Caruso, Pedro ^c   Costa, Ramon T ^c   Leal, Juliana V R ^a   Salluh, Jorge I F ^a,d   Soares, Márcio ^a,d  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE CÂNCER   (Brazil)

^b HOSPITAL DE CLÍNICAS DE PORTO ALEGRE   (Brazil)

^c A C CAMARGO CANCER CENTER   (Brazil)

^d D OR INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION IDOR   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cancer; Intensive care unit; Mortality; Outcome; Sepsis

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL INFECTION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HEART FAILURE; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; KIDNEY FAILURE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LUNG INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MIXED INFECTION; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ONCOLOGY WARD; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; PNEUMONIA; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SECONDARY ANALYSIS; SEPSIS; SOLID TUMOR; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

BRAZIL; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROC CURVE; SEPSIS; SHOCK, SEPTIC; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 84861196877     PISSN: 08839441     EISSN: 15578615     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrc.2011.06.014     Document Type: Article

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