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Admission of advanced lung cancer patients to intensive care unit: A retrospective study of 76 patients

BACKGROUND: Criteria for admitting patients with incurable diseases to the medical intensive care unit (MICU) remain unclear and have ethical implications. METHODS: We retrospectively evaluated MICU outcomes and identified risk factors for MICU mortality in consecutive patients with advanced lung ca...

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Autores principales: Andréjak, Claire, Terzi, Nicolas, Thielen, Stéphanie, Bergot, Emmanuel, Zalcman, Gérard, Charbonneau, Pierre, Jounieaux, Vincent
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3112156/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21535895
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2407-11-159