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Do severity-of-illness scores accurately predict outcomes in critically ill cancer patients admitted to the ICU?
Do severity-of-illness scores accurately predict outcomes in critically ill cancer patients admitted to the ICU?
Existing severity-of-illness scores, including CMM, do not accurately predict outcomes in critically ill cancer patients admitted to the ICU.
Caution against relying on standard severity scores for prognosis in ICU cancer patients; challenges their validity and leaves open need for cancer-specific models.
None of the model scores accurately predicted outcome in the present group of critically ill cancer patients. In addition, there was no advantage of CMM over the other general models.
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