Table V.

Adjusted Patterns of Care at End of Life by Life-Threatening Complex Chronic Condition Type

	Static Encephalopathy		Congenital & Chromosomal		Neuromuscular		Pulmonary
	AOR	95% CI	AOR	95% CI	AOR	95% CI	AOR	95% CI
Any palliative care involvement	0.07	0.01–0.68	0.16	0.02–1.48	0.14	0.01–1.64	0.07	0.01–0.90
Any Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) orders	0.19	0.04–0.93	0.21	0.05–0.82	0.14	0.03–0.79	0.17	0.03–1.04
Intensive life sustaining therapies in last 2 days of life	10.04	0.97–103.59	13.62	1.62–114.59	4.05	0.31–52.69	11.92	1.11–127.64
Location of death
Hospital (ICU)	1.98	0.51–7.60	2.09	0.72–6.01	1.02	0.24–4.32	6.82	1.12–41.47
Hospital (non-ICU)	1.51	0.78–29.21	2.91	0.32–26.76	6.39	0.45–90.27	–	–
Home	0.16	0.03–0.81	0.23	0.07–0.72	0.4	0.09–1.74	0.08	0.01–0.77
Other	1.73	0.14–21.18	0.58	0.04–7.55	0.58	0.03–12.50	–	–
Mode of death
Comfort Care	0.13	0.03–0.55	0.22	0.08–0.62	0.32	0.08–1.32	–	–
Died receiving mechanical ventilation and/or CPR	6.11	0.61–61.61	8.57	1.02–71.86	7.25	0.63–82.34	1.91	0.10–35.04
Died after withdrawal or withholding of life-sustaining interventions	3.37	0.96–11.84	1.92	0.68–5.41	1.48	0.36–6.12	23.16	2.42–221.35
Ability to plan location of death	0.53	0.12–2.23	0.22	0.07–0.74	0.41	0.09–1.90	0.17	0.03–0.99

The life-threatening complex chronic condition reference group is CNS progressive disorders.

Binary outcomes were assessed using logistic regression and all analyses were adjusted for age at death, gender, race, technology dependence