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Published in final edited form as: Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2015 Oct 29;63(3):516–522. doi: 10.1002/pbc.25822

TABLE III.

Associations of Diagnosis With End-Of-Life Characteristics

Diagnosis (n)	Enrolled in phase I study	Enrolled in hospice	Died at home or inpatient hospice	Days from DNR order to death
	N (%)	N (%)	N (%)	Median (IQR)
	N = 55	N = 201	N = 149	N = 215
Leukemia/lymphoma (149)	12 (8%)	37 (33%)	30 (25%)	7.5 (1–16)
Solid tumor (153)	26 (17%)	91 (68%)	69 (53%)	11.5 (2–42)
Brain tumor (107)	17 (16%)	73 (77%)	50 (61%)	21 (4.5–45.5)
Hematologic/immunologic (36)	0 (0%)	0 (0%)	0 (0%)	2 (1–6)
Association of diagnosis with outcome (P value)	<0.01	<0.0001	<0.0001	<0.001

Percentage = number with end-of-life characteristic/total n by diagnosis, excluding those with missing data. Of the total population (445), 440 had information on Phase I enrollment, 379 on hospice enrollment, and 379 on location of death. Of the 219 patients with a DNR order, 215 had information on the length of time the order was in place; DNR, do-not-resuscitate; IQR, interquartile range.