Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Critical Care giúp cho các bạn có thêm kiến thức về ngành y học đề tài: Characteristics and outcomes of cancer patients in European ICUs. | Available online http content 13 1 R15 Open Access Research Characteristics and outcomes of cancer patients in European ICUs Fabio Silvio Taccone1 Antonio A Artigas2 Charles L Sprung3 Rui Moreno4 Yasser Sakr5 and Jean-Louis Vincent1 1 Department of Intensive Care Erasme Hospital Université libre de Bruxelles Route de Lennik 808 1070-Brussels Belgium 2Critical Care Center Sabadell Hospital CIBER Enfermedades Respiratorias Autonomous University of Barcelona Parc Tauli 08208 Sabadell Spain department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center . 12000 91120 Jerusalem Israel department for Intensive Care Hospital de St. Antonio dos Capuchos Centro Hospitalar de Lisboa Central . Alameda de Santo António dos Capuchos 1169-050 Lisboa Portugal department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Friedrich-Schiller-University Erlanger Allee 101 Jena 07743 Germany Corresponding author Jean-Louis Vincent jlvincen@ Received 22 Oct 2008 Revisions requested 10 Dec 2008 Revisions received 9 Jan 2009 Accepted 6 Feb 2009 Published 6 Feb 2009 Critical Care 2009 13 R15 doi cc7713 This article is online at http content 13 1 R15 2009 Taccone et al. licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Introduction Increasing numbers of cancer patients are being admitted to the intensive care unit ICU either for cancer-related complications or treatment-associated side effects yet there are relatively few data concerning the epidemiology and prognosis of cancer patients admitted to general ICUs. The aim of this study was to assess the characteristics of critically ill cancer patients and to evaluate their prognosis. Methods This was a substudy of the .