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.