Research Article
Practice and Predictors of Do-Not-Resuscitate Orders in a Tertiary-Care Intensive Care Unit in Saudi Arabia
Table 3
Outcome of patients with do-not-resuscitate (DNR) status and those with full code status.
| Variables | All N = 24790 | Do-not-resuscitate (DNR) N = 3217 | Full code N = 21573 | value |
| ICU mortality, n (%) | 3975 (16.2) | 2168 (67.8) | 1807 (8.5) | <0.0001 | Hospital mortality, n (%) | 6558 (26.5) | 2650 (82.4) | 3908 (18.1) | <0.0001 | Tracheostomy, n (%) | 2378 (9.6) | 489 (15.2) | 1889 (8.8) | <0.0001 | Mechanical ventilation duration (days), median (Q1, Q3) | 2 (0, 6) | 5 (2, 13) | 1 (0, 5) | <0.0001 | ICU LOS (days), median (Q1, Q3) | 3.4 (1.2, 9.2) | 6.3 (2.1, 13.7) | 3.1 (1.1, 8.5) | <0.0001 | Hospital LOS (days), median (Q1, Q3) | 21 (10, 47) | 16 (7, 32) | 23 (11, 50) | <0.0001 |
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ICU: intensive care unit; LOS: length of stay.
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