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01.09.2004 | Correspondence
Is there any usefulness for a specific scoring system in assessing the prognosis of cancer patients admitted to the intensive care unit?
verfasst von:
T. Berghmans, J. P. Sculier
Erschienen in:
Intensive Care Medicine
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Ausgabe 9/2004
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Sir: In their recently published study in cancer patients admitted to an intensive care unit (ICU), Schellongowski et al. compared three scoring systems and did not observe any advantage of a specific oncological scoring system over the general gravity scores APACHE II and SAPS II [
1]. It should be emphasised that the specific oncological score was prospectively designed with a multi-centre cancer patients cohort [
2]. We performed the same study in 247 medical cancer patients admitted for a medical complication to the ICU of a cancer hospital. This work was presented earlier [
3] and has now been published [
4]. …