Cancer Patients Dying in the Intensive Care Units and Access to Palliative Care

Journal of Palliative Medicine
Mathilde LedouxMarilène Filbet

Abstract

In France, cancer has become the leading cause of death. Intensive care units (ICU) focus on survival, which may not be an appropriate setting to provide palliative care (PC) as needed by cancer patients and families. To describe the cancer patients who died in the ICU in 2010 in a French academic medical center. Retrospective study Measurements: We reviewed medical records of all cancer patients who died in the ICU in 2010. The information collected from electronic medical records included patient sociodemographics and clinical characteristics, PC service referral, and the date of first contact with PC. Among the 536 cancer patients who died in 2010, 42 (8%) died in the ICU. The cancers were hematological (21%), gastrointestinal (21%) and head and neck (21%). One patient had a PC referral versus 45% in the total population (p < 0.001) and the referral was the same day as the death. Eight (19%) patients had chemotherapy during their last month of life and 2 during the ICU hospitalization. Seventy-four per cent of patient admissions to the ICU related directly to malignancy. The mean time between diagnosis of cancer and death was 2.3 years (standard deviation, 4.4). Our work highlights the need for early PC in the illness trajec...Continue Reading

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