Table 3.

Analysis of the decision-making criteria recorded in the 50 patient files. Several reasons are possible for each child

	group 1: n=27 (under the age of 1 year)	group 2: n=23 (over the age of 1 year)
Subsequent quality of life	18	10
Severe neurological handicap	8	19
Severe extrarenal disease	6	13
Consequences of the disease for the family	7	4
Survival unlikely	5	5
Opinion of the family	5	3
Renal insufficiency at birth	3	4
Social context	0	2
Suffering of the child	2	0
Treatment failure	1	1
Cost	0	0