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Published in final edited form as: Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2018 Dec;19(12):1137–1145. doi: 10.1097/PCC.0000000000001742

Table 3:

PICU and Hospital Resource Use by Autopsy Performance

Variable	Autopsy (n=100)	No Autopsy (n=175)	Significance Level
PICU LOS, days, Median [IQR]	3.2 [1.3–13.2]	6.2 [1.8–15.0]	0.04¹
Hospital LOS, days, Median [IQR]	4.9 [1.6–18.1]	13.5 [3.5–31.3]	0.001¹
Therapies
Mechanical Ventilation, n (%)	95 (95.0)	147 (84.0)	0.007²
Vasoactive Agent Infusions, n (%)	88 (88.0)	124 (70.9)	0.001²
Antibiotics, n (%)	86 (86.0)	152 (86.9)	0.84²
Steroids, n (%)	48 (48.0)	95 (54.3)	0.32²
Location of Death			0.31³
PICU, n (%)	95 (95.0)	157 (89.7)
Hospital General Care, n (%)	2 (2.0)	10 (5.7)
Other, n (%)	3 (3.0)	8 (4.6)

^1.

Wilcoxon Rank Sum

^2.

Chi-squared

^3.

Fisher’s Exact

PICU: Pediatric Intensive Care Unit; LOS: Length of stay; IQR: Interquartile range