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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Med Care. 2013 Aug;51(8):666–672. doi: 10.1097/MLR.0b013e31829742b6

TABLE 2.

NUMBER OF CHANGES IN CPR AND DNR STATUS FOLLOWING ADMISSION

Number of changes CPR at admission DNR at admission
N % N %
0 31,036 55.43 57,372 92.16
1 22,541 40.25 2,179 3.50
2 1,196 2.14 2,383 3.83
3 1,022 1.83 128 0.21
4 98 0.17 151 0.24
5 84 0.15 21 0.03
6 10 0.02 15 0.02
7 8 0.01 1 0.00
9 1 0.00 0 0.00
12 0 0.00 1 0.00
Total 55,996 100.00 62,251 100.00

When the number of changes is greater than 1 it means that the patient had multiple changes between CPR and DNR status. For example, if the number of changes is 4 and the patient entered as CPR, then we observed in the data the following sequence for this patient: CPR, DNR, CPR, DNR, CPR.