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The one-year outcomes of life-sustaining treatments in intensive care units among cancer patients at the end of life stage in Taiwan: A retrospective design.

2021-02-26

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<h4>Background: </h4> Terminal cancer patients’ admission to intensive care unit (ICU) remains a controversial issue and there is a lack of information about their prognosis after ICU life-sustaining treatments. This one-year study aimed to compared the impacts of life-sustaining treatments and utilization of hospital care prior to ICU admission on mortality rates between cancer and non-cancer patients at the end...

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Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life

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Literature Corpus work: bad64097-5fe9-590a-a3c3-535588730e90
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-209368/v1

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