Table 3.

End Of Life Characteristics Associated with Advanced Cancer Patient Having Versus Not Having Dependent Children

Measure	Unadjusted Analyses		Adjusted Analyses	Measure
	da or O.R. (95% CI)	p-value	da or O.R. (95% CI)	p-value
EOL Care
Outpatient Hospiceb	0.92(0.53-1.59)	0.76	0.96(0.52-1.76)	0.89
ICUc	1.56 (0.66-3.68)	0.31	1.43(0.60-3.41)	0.43
Ventilatord	1.05(0.38-2.90)	0.93	0.82 (0.29-2.35)	0.72
Resuscitatione	0.69(0.15-3.13)	0.63	0.49(0.10-2.32)	0.36
Feeding Tube	0.94 (0.34-2.58)	0.90	0.94 (0.34-2.58)	0.90
Chemotherapy	0.91 (0.30-2.78)	0.87	0.91 (0.30-2.78)	0.87
Any Aggressivef	1.03(0.53-2.03)	0.93	1.06(0.53-2.09)	0.88
Location of death
Inpatient Hospiceg	0.10(0.01-0.70)	0.02	0.09(0.01-0.66)	0.02
Homeh	1.02(0.60-1.74)	0.94	1.10(0.61-2.00)	0.75
ICUc	1.94(0.81-4.67)	0.14	1.18(0.45-3.12)	0.74
Hospital (Non ICU)i	1.24 (0.68-2.28)	0.49	1.61 (0.85-3.04)	0.14
Hospital Total (ICU and Non ICU)j	1.52 (0.88-2.64)	0.14	1.29 (0.68-2.45)	0.44
Quality of Death/ Last Week of Lifek	-0.14	0.01	-0.12	0.04

Note: Bolded rows represent significant differences between patients with and without dependent children.

^a= mean differences expressed in standard deviations of baseline data; Confounders

^b= Yale and Karnofsky

^c= Black Race and age

^d= White Race and age

^e= White Race and Simmons

^f= Simmons

^g= Yale

^h= Yale and Black Race

ⁱ= age and symptom burden

^j= age, symptom burden and Parkland

^k= symptom burden and post mortem assessor