Resuscitation outcomes in patients with cancer: experience in a large urban cancer centre.

Purpose: Hospitalized patients with cancer who experience cardiopulmonary arrest have historically low survival rates. This retrospective cohort study describes outcomes of patients at a large Canadian cancer centre who had a "code medical emergency" activated, and the use of pragmatic criteria to identify patients with poor survival following resuscitation.

Methods: We included hospitalized patients with cancer who had a "code blue" activated between January 2007 and December 2018.