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Effect of do-not-resuscitate orders on patients with sepsis in the medical intensive care unit: a retrospective, observational and propensity score-matched study in a tertiary referral hospital in Taiwan.


ABSTRACT:

Objective

The aim of this study was to determine whether do-not-resuscitate (DNR) orders affect outcomes in patients with sepsis admitted to intensive care unit (ICU).

Design

This is a retrospective observational study.

Participants

We enrolled 796 consecutive adult intensive care patients at Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, a 2700-bed tertiary teaching hospital in southern Taiwan. A total of 717 patients were included.

Main measures

Clinical factors such as age, gender and other clinical factors possibly related to DNR orders and hospital mortality were recorded.

Key results

There were 455 patients in the group without DNR orders and 262 patients in the group with DNR orders. Within the DNR group, patients were further grouped into early (orders signed on intensive care day 1, n=126) and late (signed after day 1, n=136). Patients in the DNR group were older and more likely to have malignancy than the group without DNR orders. Mortality at days 7, 14 and 28, as well as intensive care and hospital mortality, were all worse in these patients even after propensity-score matching. There were higher Charlson Comorbidity Index in the emergency room, but better outcomes in those with early-DNR orders compared with late-DNR orders.

Conclusions

DNR orders may predict worse outcomes for patients with sepsis admitted to medical ICUs. The survival rate in the early-DNR order group was not inferior to the late-DNR order group.

SUBMITTER: Chang YC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6589004 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Effect of do-not-resuscitate orders on patients with sepsis in the medical intensive care unit: a retrospective, observational and propensity score-matched study in a tertiary referral hospital in Taiwan.

Chang Ya-Chun YC   Fang Ying-Tang YT   Chen Hung-Cheng HC   Lin Chiung-Yu CY   Chang Yu-Ping YP   Chen Yu-Mu YM   Huang Chi-Han CH   Huang Kuo-Tung KT   Chang Huang-Chih HC   Su Mao-Chang MC   Wang Yi-Hsi YH   Wang Chin-Chou CC   Lin Meng-Chih MC   Fang Wen-Feng WF  

BMJ open 20190616 6


<h4>Objective</h4>The aim of this study was to determine whether do-not-resuscitate (DNR) orders affect outcomes in patients with sepsis admitted to intensive care unit (ICU).<h4>Design</h4>This is a retrospective observational study.<h4>Participants</h4>We enrolled 796 consecutive adult intensive care patients at Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, a 2700-bed tertiary teaching hospital in southern Taiwan. A total of 717 patients were included.<h4>Main measures</h4>Clinical factors such as a  ...[more]

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