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Table 2 Palliative care and usual care patients: survival, medical utilization and life-sustaining treatment use

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

 Palliative careUsual carep-value
(n = 336)(n = 1344)
Mean(SD)Mean(SD)
Post ED resuscitation survival days107.3127.20302.2406.70<.0001
Post palliative survival days48.781.87273.8384.90<.0001
ED visit0.41.112.16.12<.0001
Hospitalization0.51.361.63.10<.0001
ICU admission0.0030.0550.0140.1180.011
OPD expense (USD)256.2776.14477.811,980.5<.0001
Hospitalization expense (USD)1233.15089.05390.213,118.6<.0001
All medical expense (USD)1489.35312.09898.119,572.0<.0001
LST-Total LSTs usage9.021.2022.262.35<.0001
LST-NGT feeding4.98.894.39.980.28
LST-IABP0.030.24
LST-ECMO0.020.20
LST-Hemodialysis1.912.6113.556.94<.0001
LST-CPR0.10.270.20.46<.0001
LST-Ventilator2.16.794.114.580.0003
  1. CPR Cardiopulmonary resuscitation, ECMO Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, ED Emergency department, IABP Intraaortic balloon pumping, ICU Intensive care unit, LST Life-sustaining treatment, NGT Nasogastric tube, OPD Outpatient department, USD US Dollar, convert USD/TWD 1:30