Investigators will evaluate determinants of the patients' care type : palliative, medical or intensive care. The place of patient or family on care's decision will be noticed. Investigators will evaluate 3 month-survival and patients' feelings (visit with a psychologist) according to type of care they benefited.
Two hundred patients have to be enrolled in 2 years in the Grenoble Teaching Hospital and in the Saint Louis hospital in Paris between November 2010 and November 2012. Each lung cancer patient with at least one organ failure, admitted in emergency, thoracic oncology or directly in ICU will be included. The objectives are to identify patients' characteristics associated with proposition for intensive care unit admission and those associated with the decision of intensive care unit admission.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
140
University Hospital of Grenoble
Grenoble, France
Identify an association between patients' characteristics and proposition for intensive care unit admission.
univariate and multivariate logistic regression
Time frame: at day 0
Identify an association between patients' characteristics and decision of intensive care unit admission among patients proposed for ICU admission
univariate and multivariate logistic regression
Time frame: at day 0
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