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Table 1 Underlying diseases according to physicians’ coding of main diagnoses

From: Usage of do-not-attempt-to-resuscitate orders in a Swedish community hospital – patient involvement, documentation and compliance

Disease

N

Heart disease

311

Cancer

186

Multimorbidity

139

Diabetes mellitus

107

Lung disease

96

Stroke

64

Neurologic disease

55

Dementia

55

Psychiatric disease

52

Kidney failure

50

Autoimmune and endocrine disease

42

Gastrointestinal disease

39

None

23

Hematologic disease

10

Unknown

3