Table 2.

Therapeutic activities in the final 24 hours in the two cohorts.

	1992-1995	2002-2005
Therapeutic activities in the final 24 hours	n (%)	n (%)	Total	p-value*
Ventilation	151 (92.6)	89 (95.7%)	240 (93.8%)	0.331
Antibiotics	123 (75.5)	71 (76.3%)	194 (75.8%)	0.563
Inotropics	71 (43.6)	54 (58.1)	125 (48.8)	0.056
Peritoneal dialysis	1 (0.6)	2 (2.2)	3 (1.2)	0.311
Parenteral nutrition	37 (22.7)	28 (30.1)	65 (25.4)	0.256
Enteral nutrition	26 (16)	16 (17.2)	42 (16.4)	0.549

*Chi-squared test.