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Death and do-not-resuscitate order in the emergency department: A single-center three-year retrospective study in the Chinese mainland
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Chuan-qi Ding, Yu-ping Zhang, Yu-wei Wang, Min-fei Yang, Sa Wang, Nian-qi Cui, Jing-fen Jin
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Table 1 Demographic and pre-hospital information of the 132 patients who died in ED
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| Variables | n (%) | | Demographic characteristics | | | Age (years), median (IQR) | 77 (55.25, 87.75) | | Sex | | | Male | 88 (66.7) | | Female | 44 (33.3) | | Living of place | | | Countryside | 21 (15.9) | | City | 111 (84.1) | | Expense category | | | Self-supporting | 35 (26.5) | | Medical insurance | 97 (73.5) | Duration from morbidity to signing DNR (hours),
median (IQR) | 14 (2, 42) | | Pre-hospital information | | | Referral | | | No | 91 (68.9) | | Yes | 41 (31.1) | | 30-day readmission | | | Yes | 54 (40.9) | | No | 78 (59.1) | | Ambulance transfer | | | Yes | 108 (81.8) | | No | 24 (18.2) | | Triage | | | Level I | 73 (55.3) | | Level II | 31 (23.5) | | Level III | 21 (15.9) | | Level IV | 2 (1.5) | | Level V | 5 (3.8) | | Clinical department | | | Internal medicine | 61 (46.2) | | Neurology department | 37 (28.0) | | Cardiology department | 11 (8.3) | | Emergency department | 10 (7.6) | | Neurosurgery department | 8 (6.1) | | Surgical department | 5 (3.8) |
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