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Table 1 Demographic and clinical characteristics of the patients care for by each individual attending physician

From: Are physicians on the same page about do-not-resuscitate? To examine individual physicians’ influence on do-not-resuscitate decision-making: a retrospective and observational study

 

P1 (n = 13)

P2 (n = 30)

P3 (n = 39)

P4 (n = 47)

P5 (n = 124)

P6 (n = 498)

P7 (n = 153)

P8 (n = 218)

P9 (n = 260)

P10 (n = 352)

P11 (n = 125)

Age

44.80~76.50

20.20~76.30

41.20~85.00

28.30~94.10

24.30~92.00

20.10~95.00

21.00~84.70

24.20~91.70

20.30~91.10

21.00~92.40

23.70~95.40

57.30

52.90

68.00

69.80

71.10

64.75

58.20

60.60

59.50

62.10

63.10

60.80 ± 10.54

52.46 ± 14.38

65.70 ± 12.06

68.77 ± 15.94

66.25 ± 17.29

64.65 ± 12.20

55.86 ± 16.39

60.81 ± 14.55

57.61 ± 17.85

61.88 ± 13.91

62.40 ± 14.20

Gender

 Male

11 (84.6%)

18 (60.00%)

25 (64.10%)

29 (61.70%)

97 (78.20%)

332 (66.70%)

100 (65.40%)

156 (71.60%)

157 (60.40%)

250 (71.00%)

79 (63.20%)

 Female

2 (15.4%)

12 (40.00%)

14 (35.90%)

18 (38.30%)

27 (21.80%)

166 (33.30%)

53 (34.60%)

62 (28.40%)

103 (39.60%)

102 (29.00%)

46 (36.80%)

Religion

 BD

4 (30.80%)

12 (40.00%)

18 (46.20%)

24 (51.10%)

60 (48.40%)

240 (48.20%)

62 (40.50%)

90 (41.30%)

113 (43.50%)

171 (48.60%)

54 (43.20%)

 CC

0

1 (3.30%)

2 (5.1%)

1 (2.10%)

6 (4.80%)

31 (6.20%)

8 (5.20%)

19 (8.70%)

7 (2.70%)

24 (6.80%)

9 (7.20%)

 Others

9 (69.20%)

17 (56.70%)

19 (48.70%)

22 (46.80%)

58 (46.80%)

227 (45.60%)

83 (54.20%)

109 (50.00%)

140 (53.80%)

157 (44.60%)

62 (49.60%)

Education by year

 > 12

2 (15.40%)

8 (26.70%)

7 (17.90%)

12 (25.50%)

32 (25.80%)

170 (34.10%)

31 (20.30%)

67 (30.70%)

82 (31.50%)

106 (30.10%)

42 (33.60%)

 1–12

11 (84.60%)

21 (70.00%)

28 (71.80%)

26 (55.30%)

79 (63.70%)

279 (56.00%)

113 (73.90%)

130 (59.60%)

149 (57.30%)

213 (60.50%)

72 (57.60%)

 0

0

1 (3.30%)

4 (10.30%)

9 (19.10%)

13 (10.50%)

49 (9.80%)

9 (5.90%)

21 (9.60%)

29 (11.2%)

33 (9.40%)

11 (8.80%)

Marital Status

 Married

12 (92.30%)

19 (63.30%)

28 (71.80%)

28 (59.60%)

86 (69.40%)

410 (82.30%)

108 (70.60%)

170 (78.00%)

191 (73.50%)

282 (80.10%)

97 (77.60%)

 Others

1 (7.70%)

11 (36.70%)

11 (28.20%)

19 (40.40%)

38 (30.60%)

88 (17.70%)

45 (29.40%)

48 (22.00%)

69 (26.50%)

70 (19.90%)

28 (22.40%)

Working Fulltime

 No

8 (61.50%)

18 (60.00%)

23 (59.00%)

37 (78.70%)

82 (66.10%)

318 (63.90%)

92 (60.10%)

120 (55.00%)

156 (60.00%)

229 (65.10%)

72 (58.40%)

 Yes

5 (38.50%)

12 (40.00%)

16 (41.00%)

10 (21.30%)

42 (33.90%)

180 (36.10%)

61 (39.90%)

98 (45.00%)

104 (40.00%)

123 (34.90%)

52 (41.60%)

Residence

 Rural

0

2 (6.70%)

1 (2.60%)

1 (2.10%)

7 (5.60%)

16 (3.20%)

15 (9.80%)

9 (4.10%)

16 (6.20%)

24 (6.80%)

7 (5.60%)

 Urban

13 (100.00%)

28 (93.30%)

38 (97.40%)

46 (97.90%)

117 (94.40%)

482 (96.80%)

138 (90.20%)

209 (95.90%)

244 (93.80%)

328 (93.20%)

118 (94.40%)

Admission Diagnosis

 NO, CF/I

6 (46.20%)

10 (33.30%)

29 (74.40%)

10 (21.30%)

12 (9.70%)

273 (54.80%)

100 (65.40%)

116 (53.20%)

111 (42.70%)

172 (48.90%)

53 (42.40%)

 NO, others

0

10 (33.30%)

0

4 (8.50%)

10 (8.10%)

3 (0.60%)

20 (13.10%)

6 (2.80%)

41 (15.80%)

8 (2.30%)

1 (0.80%)

 O, MS

3 (23.10%)

6 (20.00%)

8 (20.50%)

12 (25.50%)

20 (16.10%)

169 (33.90%)

22 (14.40%)

63 (28.90%)

78 (30.00%)

102 (29.00%)

59 (47.20%)

 O, others

4 (30.80%)

4 (13.30%)

2 (5.10%)

21 (44.70%)

82 (66.10%)

53 (10.60%)

11 (7.20%)

33 (15.10%)

30 (11.50%)

70 (19.90%)

12 (9.60%)

TISS

16~48

11~63

15~77

10~53

6~67

7~65

7~62

7~67

2~83

6~67

7~62

31.00

36.50

36.58

20.00

20.00

34.00

33.00

32.00

36.00

32.00

34.00

29.46 ± 10.03

36.10 ± 11.78

37.23 ± 11.55

21.09 ± 8.43

23.06 ± 11.12

33.40 ± 8.20

32.69 ± 11.45

30.72 ± 11.06

35.61 ± 12.09

30.94 ± 9.84

34.41 ± 10.09

LOS by day

 SICU

0~27

1~369

0~18

0~43

0~31

0~105

0~74

0~70

0~132

0~87

0~53

3

3

2

2

2

4

4

4

3

3

3

6.92 ± 9.09

15.97 ± 66.73

3.56 ± 4.33

5.04 ± 7.78

3.58 ± 5.40

6.18 ± 10.25

5.79 ± 8.31

6.47 ± 8.90

7.37 ± 13.19

7.13 ± 11.88

6.02 ± 8.98

 Hospital

6~94

1~375

6~76

1~533

0~124

1~207

0~177

0~209

0~185

2~231

0~318

19

15

16

11

11

15

16

18

18

18

16

30.00 ± 28.31

26.47 ± 66.35

21.46 ± 15.56

35.32 ± 11.95

20.65 ± 24.73

21.62 ± 23.53

20.60 ± 20.65

26.58 ± 24.95

26.02 ± 24.14

27.32 ± 25.85

25.66 ± 31.64

  1. Abbreviation List: P Physician, BD Buddhist/Daoist, CC Christian/Catholics, Marital Marital Status, NO, CF/I Non-operative, cardiac failure/insufficiency, O, MS Operative, major surgery, TISS Therapeutic Intervention Scoring System, LOS length of stay, SICU surgical intensive care unit
  2. Continuous variables such as Age, Education by Year, TISS, and Length of Stay by Day are reported as “minimal number ~ maximal number, median, mean ± standard deviation”
  3. Categorical variables are reported as “total number (percentage)”