Table 2.
Place and circumstances of death
| Total N = 149 (100%) |
Cardiology n = 19 (13%) |
Neonatology n = 57 (38%) |
Neurology n = 36 (24%) |
Oncology n = 37 (25%) |
p-value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Place of death, n (%) | < 0.001a | |||||
| PICU | 63 (42) | 13 (67) | 27 (48) | 13 (36) | 10 (27) | |
| NICU | 30 (20) | 0 (0) | 27 (48) | 3 (8) | 0 (0) | |
| Hospital ward / long-term institution | 26 (18) | 2 (11) | 0 (0) | 13 (36) | 11 (30) | |
| Home | 25 (17) | 2 (11) | 2 (3) | 7 (20) | 14 (38) | |
| Emergency department / Transport | 5 (3) | 2 (11) | 1 (1) | 0 (0) | 2 (5) | |
| CPRb | ||||||
| Yes, n (%) | 26 (17) | 7 (37) | 6 (11) | 7 (19) | 6 (16) | 0.097c |
| DNR order | ||||||
| Yes, n (%) | 91 (62) | 11 (58) | 20 (35) | 33 (92) | 27 (77) | < 0.001c |
| DNR order change within the last four weeks of life | ||||||
| Yes, n (%) | 51 (57) | 7 (64) | 18 (90) | 13 (41) | 13 (48) | 0.002c |
| Withdrawal of life-sustaining interventionsd | n = 93 | n = 13 | n = 54 | n = 16 | n = 10 | |
| Yes, n (%) | 78 (84) | 10 (77) | 49 (91) | 12 (75) | 7 (70) | 0.203c |
PICU Paediatric intensive care unit, NICU Neonatal intensive care unit, CPR Cardiopulmonary resuscitation, DNR Do not resuscitate
aAcross the four groups, based on Fisher’s exact test
bWithin 24 h before death
cAcross the four groups, based on likelihood ratio chi-square
dOnly applies to patients who died in an intensive care unit