Clinical Trial: Admission, Triage, and Discharge Criteria for Oncological Patients in the Intensive Care Unit

U.S., Sept. 10 -- ClinicalTrials.gov registry received information related to the study (NCT07809490) titled 'Admission, Triage, and Discharge Criteria for Oncological Patients in the Intensive Care Unit' on Aug. 24.

Brief Summary: This study will create one agreed set of rules to help doctors decide which people with cancer should be treated in an intensive care unit (ICU), and when they are well enough to leave it. An ICU is a hospital ward for people who are very sick and need close watching and life support.

Why the researchers are doing this study

Hospitals do not agree on when a person with cancer should go to the ICU. Because of this, some people who could recover are turned away. Others get treatments that cannot help them and ma...