Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer
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Support Care Cancer · Feb 2020
Prognostic accuracy of the sequential organ failure assessment (SOFA) and quick SOFA for mortality in cancer patients with sepsis defined by systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS).
We aimed to assess the prognostic accuracy of SOFA and qSOFA scores in cancer patients with sepsis, and also to determine if the addition of hyperlactatemia to qSOFA increases the accuracy in predicting the 30-day mortality. ⋯ In cancer patients with sepsis, qSOFA was inferior to SOFA in predicting mortality. However, adding lactate to qSOFA resulted in greater prognostic accuracy for short-term mortality, comparable with SOFA.
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Support Care Cancer · Feb 2020
Practices and opinions of specialized palliative care physicians regarding early palliative care in oncology.
To describe the practices and opinions of specialized palliative care (SPC) physicians regarding early palliative care for patients with cancer, determine characteristics associated with receiving early referrals; and solicit opinions regarding renaming the specialty "supportive care." ⋯ Although most SPC physicians supported early palliative care in oncology, the timing of referrals was often late, and was associated with characteristics of SPC physicians. Few SPC physicians supported renaming palliative care.