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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Intensive Care Med. 2015 Nov 10;42(1):54–62. doi: 10.1007/s00134-015-4098-1

Table 3. Palliative care process of care measures and clinical outcomes*, by group (unadjusted).

Usual Care, n=100 Intervention, n=103 P
Family meeting during ICU documented 35 (35) 55 (53) 0.008
Family meeting within 3 days of ICU admission documented, n (% of those with a meeting) 14 (35) 33 (59) 0.02
Days between ICU admission and family meeting, median (IQR) 5 (2, 8) 3 (1, 7) 0.18
3 disciplines represented at meeting n, (% of those with a meeting) 6 (17) 33 (60) <0.001
Full palliative care consult ordered during hospitalization 18 (18) 20 (19) 0.80
Died in the ICU, n (%) 28 (28) 28 (27) 0.90
Died in the Hospital, n (%) 35 (35) 33 (32) 0.66
90 day mortality, n (%) 45 (45) 36 (35) 0.14
Discharge destination of survivors
 LTAC 23 (35) 19 (27) 0.30
 Home 23 (35) 17 (24) 0.16
 Inpatient Rehabilitation 3 (5) 5 (7) 0.53
 Nursing home 12 (18) 19 (27) 0.23
 Hospice 2 (3) 7 (10) 0.11
 Assisted living facility 2 (3) 0 (0) 0.14
 Another hospital 0 (0) 3 (4) 0.09
ICU LOS, median (iqr), days 5 (3, 11.5) 4 (2, 10) 0.14
Hospital length of stay, median (iqr), days 13 (6, 26.5) 11 (5, 20) 0.09
ICU LOS among hospital nonsurvivors, median (iqr), days 6 (3, 12) 4 (2, 9) 0.15
Hospital LOS among hospital nonsurvivors, median (iqr), days 9 (4, 17) 5 (3, 13) 0.13
*

χ2 test for binary variables, Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney test for time to meeting and LOS variables