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Table 1 Studies conducted in Taiwan for reporting the survival rates for extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation use

From: The over-optimistic portrayal of life-supporting treatments in newspapers and on the Internet: a cross-sectional study using extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation as an example

 

Location

Primary reason

Age (Mean ± SD)

Gender (F/M)

Alive/Dead at hospital discharge

Survival rate

Chung SY et al., 2012 [[8]]

A

CF

51.8 ± 20.5

30/104

57/77

42.50%

  

RF

NA

NA

NA

NA

Hsu KH et al., 2011 [[7]]

B

CF

29.7 ± 18.7

46/29

48/27

64%

  

RF

NA

NA

NA

NA

Chen YC et al., 2011 [[6]]

A

CF

47 ± 2 a

40/62

36/44

45%

  

RF

NA

NA

6/13

31.58%

Chou NK et al., 2010 [[5]]

B

CF

42.3 ± Unknowna

5/35

21/19

52.50%

  

RF

NA

NA

NA

NA

Hsu PS et al., 2010 [[4]]

C

CF

63.0 ± 15.7

15/36

17/34

33.33%

  

RF

NA

NA

NA

NA

Ko WJ et al., 2002 [[3]]

B

CF

56.8 ± 15.9

28/48

20/52

27.78%

  

RF

NA

NA

NA

NA

  1. Abbreviations list: CF cardiac failure, RF respiratory failure, SD standard deviation, F/M female/male, NA not applicable, A medical center A, B medical center B, C medical center C.
  2. aThe values were the median of patients’ ages.