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Determinants of Intensity of Care of Lung Cancer Patients With Organ Failure

Completed
Conditions
Lung Cancer
Registration Number
NCT01999621
Lead Sponsor
University Hospital, Grenoble
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.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
COMPLETED
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
140
Inclusion Criteria
  • lung cancer
  • Organ failure
Exclusion Criteria

Study & Design

Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Identify an association between patients' characteristics and proposition for intensive care unit admission.at day 0

univariate and multivariate logistic regression

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Identify an association between patients' characteristics and decision of intensive care unit admission among patients proposed for ICU admissionat day 0

univariate and multivariate logistic regression

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

University Hospital of Grenoble

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Grenoble, France

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