Table 2.

Patients’ Conditions at ICU Intake and Associations With Suffering and Loss of Dignity

Categorical Variables	Full Sample (N = 200)		Association With Suffering (N = 193)		Association With Loss of Dignity (N = 175)
	n	%	OR	P	OR	P
Admission diagnosis
Respiratory failure	62	31.0	1.00	Ref.	1.00	Ref.
Cardiac arrest	23	11.5	0.45	0.095	0.38	0.101
Other primary cardiac diagnosis	18	9.0	0.17	0.018	0.12	0.072
Sepsis/septic shock	27	13.5	3.25	0.024	1.79	0.223
Trauma	9	4.5	0.38	0.280	0.31	0.209
Cancer	8	4.0	0.84	0.832	3.33	0.182
Hemorrhage	21	10.5	0.94	0.914	1.22	0.748
Neurological	10	5.0	0.84	0.819	0.86	0.862
Other	22	11.0	0.58	0.179	0.56	0.309
Medical conditions
Active malignancy	76	38.0	1.51	0.164	1.16	0.628
Hematologic malignancy	38	19.0	1.18	0.607	2.16	0.019
COPD	16	8.0	2.13	0.166	1.32	0.651
Kidney disease	42	21.0	0.82	0.547	0.92	0.817
Liver disease	22	11.0	1.23	0.599	1.31	0.499
Continuous Variables	Mean	SD	OR	P	OR	P
Charlson Comorbidity Index	5.52	2.59	1.03	0.645	0.96	0.570

ICU = intensive care unit; OR = odds ratio; Ref. = reference; COPD = chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.