Cannabis use disorder and severe sepsis outcomes in cancer patients: Insights from a national inpatient sample

Figure 1 Flowchart of patient selection of study population. This flowchart depicts the selection process for hospitalized adult cancer patients with severe sepsis from the National Inpatient Sample database between 2016 and 2020. Total of the 10741427 hospitalized adult cancer patients, those without severe sepsis were excluded, resulting in a cohort of 743520 patients. This cohort was further divided into two groups: Those with cannabis use disorder (n = 4945) and those without cannabis use disorder (n = 738575). CUD: Cannabis use disorder.