Palliative Care for Patients Dying in the Intensive Care Unit with Chronic Lung Disease Compared with Metastatic Cancer.
Crystal E BrownRuth A EngelbergElizabeth L NielsenJ Randall CurtisPublished in: Annals of the American Thoracic Society (2017)
Among patients who die in the ICU, patients with ILD and COPD receive fewer elements of palliative care and have longer lengths of stay than patients with cancer. These findings identify areas for improvement in caring for patients with chronic lung diseases. Clinical trial registered with www.clinicaltrials.gov (NCT00685893).
Keyphrases
- palliative care
- advanced cancer
- clinical trial
- end stage renal disease
- squamous cell carcinoma
- newly diagnosed
- ejection fraction
- chronic kidney disease
- chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- small cell lung cancer
- intensive care unit
- peritoneal dialysis
- prognostic factors
- papillary thyroid
- randomized controlled trial
- interstitial lung disease
- systemic sclerosis
- squamous cell
- patient reported outcomes
- mechanical ventilation