Determinants of Intensity of Care of Lung Cancer Patients With Organ Failure (CBP-DO)

Grenoble Alpes University Hospital Center (CHU)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Lung Cancer

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01999621

2010-16

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Full 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.

Enrollment: 140 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• lung cancer
• Organ failure

Exclusion criteria

Trial design

140 participants in 1 patient group

lung cancer

Description:

Each lung cancer patient with organ failure, admitted in emergency, thoracic oncology or directly in ICU