Table 5. 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 outcomes | 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% | 3.26 | (0.96,11.1) | 0.059 | 1.78 | (0.6,5.32) | 0.301 | |
| Psychological Distress | 137(35) | 25.55% | 41(12) | 29.27% | 78(17) | 21.79% | 18(6) | 33.33% | 1.03 | (0.26,4.02) | 0.964 | 0.57 | (0.18,1.83) | 0.345 | |
| Not at Peace | 173(45) | 26.01% | 48(8) | 16.67% | 99(26) | 26.26% | 26(11) | 42.31% | 0.41 | (0.12,1.38) | 0.150 | 0.56 | (0.22,1.45) | 0.234 | |
| Worst Possible Death | 190(67) | 35.26% | 56(24) | 42.86% | 104(37) | 35.58% | 30(6) | 20.00% | 0.32 | (0.1,1.02) | 0.054 | 0.42 | (0.15,1.17) | 0.097 | |
| Suffering | 199(91) | 45.73% | 58(21) | 36.21% | 110(51) | 46.36% | 31(19) | 61.29% | 0.34 | (0.12,0.96) | 0.041 | 0.53 | (0.23,4.35) | 0.142 | |
| Loss of Dignity | 194(81) | 41.75% | 55(15) | 27.27% | 108(48) | 44.44% | 31(18) | 58.06% | 0.33 | (0.12,0.94) | 0.038 | 0.66 | (0.29,1.54) | 0.340 | |
Notes: AOR = Adjusted Odds Ratio; Associations of DNR status with patient symptoms are adjusted for age, gender, CCI, length of ICU stay, and number of procedures taken among dialysis, mechanical ventilation, feeding tube, cardiac resuscitation, and withdraw life support.