Impact of a Prior Cancer Diagnosis on Quality of Care and Survival Following Acute Myocardial Infarction: Retrospective Population-Based Cohort Study in England.

Background: An increasing proportion of patients with cancer experience acute myocardial infarction (AMI). We investigated differences in quality of AMI care and survival between patients with and without previous cancer diagnoses.

Methods: A retrospective cohort study using Virtual Cardio-Oncology Research Initiative data.

Prevalence and outcome of cirrhosis patients admitted to UK intensive care: a comparison against dialysis-dependent chronic renal failure patients.

Purpose: Patients with decompensated liver cirrhosis who are admitted to intensive care units (ICU) are perceived, within the UK, as having a particularly poor prognosis.

Methods: We performed a descriptive analysis of cirrhosis patients admitted to general critical care units 1995-2008 compared to patients admitted with pre-existing chronic renal failure. Data were obtained from the Intensive Care National Audit and Research Centre Case Mix Programme Database incorporating 192 adult critical care units in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.