Table 1.

a. Demographic Characteristics According to End-of-life Status

Patient characteristics	Full Code(n=344)		DNR* (n=442)		WOLS* (n=286)		Test of Difference (p)
Continuous Variables	Median	(IQR)	Median	(IQR)	Median	(IQR)	ANOVA
Age (years)	66.0	56, 75	72.0	63,79	66.5	57,75	<.0001
Length of Stay (days)	1.0	0,3	3.0	1,10	5.0	2,10	<.0001
Categorical	n	(%)	N	(%)	n	(%)	χ2
Gender
Men (% of men)	190	33.6	232	41.1	143	25.3	.421
Women (% of women)	154	30.4	210	41.4	143	28.2
Race (% of race)
Asian	4	100	0	0	0	0	**
Black	112	41.8	100	37.3	56	20.1	<.0001
Hispanic	2	66.7	1	33.3	0	0	**
Native American	10	34.5	12	41.4	7	24.1	**
Other	2	100.0	0	0	0	0	**
Unknown	20	50.0	10	25.0	10	25.0	**
White	194	26.7	319	44.0	213	29.3	<.0001
Ventilator in place % of ventilated patients)	274	49.4	219	39.5	62	11.2	<.0001
CCU Diagnosis (% of each diagnostic group)							.004
Anoxia	0	0	1	100.0	0	0
Arrhythmia	16	45.7	18	51.4	1	2.9
Cardiogenic Shock	8	36.4	8	36.4	6	27.3
Cardiomyopathy	4	10.8	14	37.8	19	51.4
Heart Failure	12	24.5	27	55.1	10	20.4
Post Cardiac Arrest	85	34.0	78	31.2	87	34.8
Respiratory Failure	16	23.9	29	43.3	22	34.3
Post Respiratory Arrest	6	20.7	13	44.9	10	34.5
Pneumonia	1	7.7	6	46.2	6	46.2
Sepsis	19	28.8	31	47.0	16	24.2
Unstable Angina	3	37.5	3	37.5	2	25.0
Valvular Disease	2	28.6	2	28.6	3	42.9
Multisystem Organ Failure	3	50.0	1	16.7	2	33.3
Pump Failure	7	22.6	14	45.2	10	32.2
Other	4	21.1	8	42.1	7	36.8
Heart Transplant Rejection	1	50.0	0	0	1	50.0
Myocardial Infarction	157	35.7	189	43.0	94	21.4
b. Demographic Characteristics by Race
Patient characteristics	Black (n=268)		White (n=726)		Other (n=78)		Tests of Difference (p)
Continuous Variables	Median	(IQR)	Median	(IQR)	Median	(IQR)	ANOVA
Age (years)	64	50,74	70	62,78	66	58,76	<.0001
Length of Stay (days)	2	1,7	3	1,7	2	1,7	.917
Categorical	n	(%)	N	(%)	n	(%)	χ2
Gender							.008
Men (% of race)	121	45.1	406	55.9	38	48.7
Women (% of race)	147	54.8	329	45.3	40	51.2
Level of Care
Full code (% of race)	112	41.7	194	26.7	38	48.7	<0.0001
DNR (% of race)	96	35.8	317	43.6	22	28.2	.006
Withdrawal of life support (% of race)	54	20.1	210	28.9	17	21.7	.013
Ventilator in place (% of race)	154	57.4	355	48.8	46	58.9	.024
CCU Diagnosis (% of race)							.162
Anoxia	1	0.3	0	0.0	0	0.0	**
Arrhythmia	6	2.2	27	3.7	2	2.5	**
Cardiogenic Shock	3	1.1	19	2.6	0	0.0	**
Cardiomyopathy	6	2.2	18	2.4	3	3.8	**
Heart Failure	13	4.8	31	4.2	5	6.4	**
Post Cardiac Arrest	80	28.9	157	21.6	13	16.6	**
Respiratory Failure	14	5.2	48	6.6	5	6.4	**
Post Respiratory Arrest	8	2.9	19	2.6	2	2.5	**
Pneumonia	1	0.3	11	1.5	1	1.2	**
Sepsis	17	6.3	45	6.1	4	5.1	**
Unstable Angina	1	0.3	6	0.8	1	1.2	**
Valvular Disease	2	0.7	5	0.6	0	0.0	**
Multisystem Organ Failure	1	0.3	5	0.6	0	0.0	**
Pump Failure	6	2.2	25	3.4	0	0.0	**
Other	6	2.2	12	1.6	1	1.2	**
Heart Transplant Rejection	2	0.7	0	0.0	0	0.0	**
Myocardial Infarction	101	37.6	298	41.0	41	52.5	.005

^*DNR = do not resuscitate; WOLS = withdrawal of life support

^**Cell counts with possible expected count of < 5 were not run.

^**Cells with expected counts of less than 5 were not run