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Table 3 A patient’s likelihood to be discharged alive as associated with other study variables (multiple logistic regression analysis)

From: Characterizing patients issued DNR orders who are ultimately discharged alive: a retrospective observational study in Japan

 

AOR

95% CI

p value

Age, years

1.018

(1.009,

1.027)

< 0.001

Female patients

1.336

(1.120,

1.595)

0.001

Timing of DNR order: Early

13.727

(9.253,

20.366)

< 0.001

Timing of DNR order: Mid-term

6.394

(4.267,

9.581)

< 0.001

Non-cancer patients

3.402

(2.758,

4.197)

< 0.001

Internal medicine patients

1.629

(1.248,

2.127)

< 0.001

Invasive LST

0.358

(0.295,

0.436)

< 0.001

Restrictions on invasive LST

0.956

(0.793,

1.152)

0.634

Hospital length of stay, days

1.005

(1.004,

1.007)

< 0.001

  1. DNR: do not resuscitate, LST: life-sustaining treatment, AOR: adjusted odds ratio, CI: confidence interval. All explanatory variables were adjusted.
  2. Hosmer and Lemeshow goodness-of-fit test (χ2 = 14.7831, df = 8, p = 0.0635)
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