Table 4. Patient quality of life, suffering and their associations with patients’ DNR order status (adjusted for different variables).
| DNR Order Status | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full Sample | Early DNR | Late DNR | No DNR | Early vs No | Late vs No | ||||||||||
| Quality of Death | N (n) | % | N (n) | % | N (n) | % | N (n) | % | AOR | CI | p | AOR | CI | p | |
| Physical Distress | 183(53) | 28.96% | 57(22) | 38.60% | 98(26) | 26.53% | 28(5) | 17.86% | 2.65 | (0.82,8.51) | 0.103 | 1.61 | (0.55,4.74) | 0.386 | |
| Psychological Distress | 137(35) | 25.55% | 41(12) | 29.27% | 78(17) | 21.79% | 18(6) | 33.33% | 0.79 | (0.22,2.89) | 0.727 | 0.51 | (0.16,1.62) | 0.255 | |
| Not at Peace | 173(45) | 26.01% | 48(8) | 16.67% | 99(26) | 26.26% | 26(11) | 42.31% | 0.30 | (0.09,0.94) | 0.038 | 0.47 | (0.19,1.2) | 0.115 | |
| Worst Possible Death | 190(67) | 35.26% | 56(24) | 42.86% | 104(37) | 35.58% | 30(6) | 20.00% | 0.31 | (0.1,0.94) | 0.039 | 0.42 | (0.15,1.14) | 0.090 | |
| Suffering | 199(91) | 45.73% | 58(21) | 36.21% | 110(51) | 46.36% | 31(19) | 61.29% | 0.38 | (0.14,0.99) | 0.048 | 0.55 | (0.24,1.28) | 0.165 | |
| Loss of Dignity | 194(81) | 41.75% | 55(15) | 27.27% | 108(48) | 44.44% | 31(18) | 58.06% | 0.26 | (0.09,0.7) | 0.008 | 0.59 | (0.26,1.35) | 0.212 | |
Notes: AOR = Adjusted Odds Ratio; Associations of DNR status with patient symptoms are adjusted for age, gender, CCI, length of ICU stay.