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Table 1 Baseline demographics of all eligibles among the resuscitation patients with palliative care and usual care

From: Choosing and Doing wisely: triage level I resuscitation a possible new field for starting palliative care and avoiding low-value care – a nationwide matched-pair retrospective cohort study in Taiwan

 

Before Match

P-value

Post Match

P-value

Palliative

Usual care

Palliative

Usual care

(n = 346)

(n = 18,615)

(n = 336)

(n = 1344)

n

(%)

n

(%)

n

(%)

n

(%)

Sex

 Female

136

39.3

8081

43.4

0.13

130

38.7

520

38.7

0.99

 Male

210

60.7

10,534

56.6

 

206

61.3

824

61.3

 

Age

 18–64

119

34.4

8465

45.5

<.0001

110

32.7

448

33.3

0.84

  ≥ 65

227

65.6

10,150

54.5

 

226

67.3

896

66.7

 

Charlson Comorbidity Index

 CCI = 0

5

1.4

5464

29.3

<.0001

5

1.5

26

1.9

0.68

 CCI = 1

14

4.1

3363

18.1

 

14

4.2

68

5.1

 

 CCI > 1

327

94.5

9788

52.6

 

317

94.3

1250

93

 

Income level

 Quintile 1

144

41.7

8408

45.2

0.269

140

41.7

614

45.7

0.11

 Quintile 2

104

30.1

5587

30.0

 

100

29.8

419

31.2

 

 Quintile 3

98

28.2

4620

24.8

 

96

28.5

311

23.1

 

Occupation

 Dependents of the insured individuals

134

38.7

6031

32.4

0.0006

132

39.3

493

36.7

0.92

 Civil servants, teachers, military personnel, veterans

37

10.7

1760

9.5

 

37

11.0

152

11.3

 

 Nonmanual workers and professionals

14

4.1

2065

11.1

 

13

3.9

52

3.9

 

 Manual workers

115

33.2

6132

33.0

 

111

33.0

476

35.4

 

 Other

46

13.3

2540

13.6

 

43

12.8

168

12.5

 

 Missing

0

0.0

87

0.4

 

0

0.0

3

0.2

 

Urbanization

 Urban

85

24.6

4735

25.4

0.1737

83

24.7

309

23.0

0.29

 Suburban

108

31.2

5077

27.3

 

104

31.0

365

27.2

 

 Rural

153

44.2

8666

46.6

 

149

44.3

667

49.6

 

 Missing

0

0.0

137

0.7

 

0

0.0

3

0.2