Spots Global Cancer Trial Database for Determinants of Intensity of Care of Lung Cancer Patients With Organ Failure

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Trial Identification

Brief Title: Determinants of Intensity of Care of Lung Cancer Patients With Organ Failure

Official Title: Determinants of Intensity of Care of Lung Cancer Patients With Organ Failure

Study ID: NCT01999621

Conditions

Lung Cancer

Interventions

Study Description

Brief Summary: Investigators will evaluate determinants of the patients' care type : palliative, medical or intensive care. The place of patient or family on care's decision will be noticed. Investigators will evaluate 3 month-survival and patients' feelings (visit with a psychologist) according to type of care they benefited.

Detailed Description: Two hundred patients have to be enrolled in 2 years in the Grenoble Teaching Hospital and in the Saint Louis hospital in Paris between November 2010 and November 2012. Each lung cancer patient with at least one organ failure, admitted in emergency, thoracic oncology or directly in ICU will be included. The objectives are to identify patients' characteristics associated with proposition for intensive care unit admission and those associated with the decision of intensive care unit admission.