Table 5.

Kaplan–Meier Survival Estimates for Children Receiving Palliative Care

			95% CI
Covariate	N deaths	Mean survival time (years)	Lower	Upper	Chi-square (Breslow)	Significance
Gender	98	5.40	4.82	5.99	2.503	0.114
Male	46	5.83	5.04	6.61
Female	52	4.82	3.98	5.67
Age	98	5.40	4.82	5.99	0.455	0.500
Preschool	24	5.08	3.86	6.31
Early elementary	22	5.31	4.18	6.43
Late elementary	31	5.00	3.90	6.11
Adolescent	21	5.84	4.74	6.94
Religiona	89	5.58	4.98	6.18	0.340	0.560
None	23	6.34	5.37	7.30
Other	33	2.83	1.73	3.93
Catholic	18	5.69	4.41	6.97
Protestant	15	6.59	5.54	7.64
Raceb	97	5.43	4.84	6.02	1.934	0.164
White	83	5.49	4.86	6.12
Other	14	4.81	3.24	6.38
Referring diagnosisc	98				24.076	0.000
Cancer	65
Congenital/genetic	23
Transplant	8
Trauma	2
Other	0
Diagnosis categories
Cancer	76	3.29	2.52	4.06	50.564	0.000
Congenital/genetic	42	6.13	5.36	6.91	10.232	0.001
Ostomies	25	6.75	5.91	7.59	12.801	0.000
Pain	50	5.88	5.18	5.59	6.204	0.013
Psychiatric	11	7.31	6.30	8.32	7.367	0.007
Trauma	10	7.22	6.23	8.21	7.664	0.006

^aThere were 11 children with “unknown” religion.

^bThere was one child with “unknown” race.

^cBecause there were no deaths in the category “Other,” mean survival time (years) nor a 95% CI could be generated.