Table 3.

Time delay between admission and initiation of end-of-life decision-making process, actual decision to withhold or withdraw therapy, and death in ICU or in-hospital in the two study periods.

	Period 1 N=306			Period 2 N=700
Time delay, days	Withholding only N=68	Withdrawal only N=102	Withholding and Withdrawal N=136	Withholding only N=165	Withdrawal only N=288	Withholding and Withdrawal N=247
Initiation of decision-making process#, Median, [IQR]	6 [3–9]	7 [3–10]	7 [4–10]	3 [2–6]	5 [2–7]	5 [2–7]
Decision#, Median [IQR]	11 [7–15]	13 [7–18]	11 [8–16]	4 [2–7]	6 [3–8]	6 [3–8]
Death in ICU#, Median [IQR]	15 [11–21]	14 [9–17]	13 [10–19]	8 [6–13]	7 [4–9]	7 [4–9]
Death in-hospital#, Median [IQR]	25 [14–31]	15 [12–17]	14 [11–22]	11 [9–16]	8 [6–11]	10 [7–15]

^#p<0.05 between periods for each category