Numbers Have Life: A Commentary on “Predictors of Survival in Patients with Advanced Gastrointestinal Malignancies Admitted to the Intensive Care Unit”

The commentary remarks on a recently published article on a study that examined predictors of poor outcomes in cancer patients using the SOFA score, answering to the question of whether the results of the study can completely inform decisions about terminal care management.

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Published inThe oncologist (Dayton, Ohio) Vol. 24; no. 4; pp. 433 - 434
Main Authors Le‐Rademacher, Jennifer G., Jatoi, Aminah
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Hoboken, USA John Wiley & Sons, Inc 01.04.2019
Subjects
Commentaries
Gastrointestinal Neoplasms
Hospital Mortality
Humans
Intensive Care Units
Life
Patients
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ISSN1083-7159
1549-490X
1549-490X
DOI10.1634/theoncologist.2018-0834

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Summary:The commentary remarks on a recently published article on a study that examined predictors of poor outcomes in cancer patients using the SOFA score, answering to the question of whether the results of the study can completely inform decisions about terminal care management.
Bibliography:See the related article, “Predictors of Survival in Patients with Advanced Gastrointestinal Malignancies Admitted to the Intensive Care Unit,” by Heidi Ko, Melissa Yan, Rohan Gupta et al., on page
of this issue.
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Disclosures of potential conflicts of interest may be found at the end of this article
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Disclosures of potential conflicts of interest may be found at the end of this article.
Editor's Note: See the related article, “Predictors of Survival in Patients with Advanced Gastrointestinal Malignancies Admitted to the Intensive Care Unit,” by Heidi Ko, Melissa Yan, Rohan Gupta et al., on page 483 of this issue.
ISSN:1083-7159
1549-490X
1549-490X
DOI:10.1634/theoncologist.2018-0834