Lung Cancer
Conditions
Keywords
organ failure, intensive care, palliative care, patient's wishes
Brief summary
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.
Detailed description
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.
Interventions
None listed
Sponsors
Study design
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
* lung cancer * Organ failure
Exclusion criteria
\-
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Identify an association between patients' characteristics and proposition for intensive care unit admission. | at day 0 | univariate and multivariate logistic regression |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Identify an association between patients' characteristics and decision of intensive care unit admission among patients proposed for ICU admission | at day 0 | univariate and multivariate logistic regression |
Other
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| identify patients' characteristics associated with survival | up to 4 months after the last inclusion | Cox' model |
| patients' feelings according to intensity of care they received | at 3 months | hospital anxiety and depression scale, SF-36 scale and Impact of Event Scale-R and a visit with a psychologist |
Countries
France