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Table 1 Characteristic of children whose treatment was withdrawn

From: Withdrawal of treatment in a pediatric intensive care unit at a Children’s Hospital in China: a 10-year retrospective study

Variables

Total, n = 680

Medical withdrawing, n = 174

Premature withdrawing, n = 506

p*

Age*, (month)

   

< 0.001

 Median(IRQ)

12.0 (3.0, 48.0)

24.0 (8.0,73.0)

8.00 (3.0,36.0)

 

Days in ICU

   

0.695

 Median(IRQ)

2.0 (1.0,7.0)

3.00 (1.0,8.0)

2.00 (1.00,6.0)

 

Gender, n(%)

   

0.380

 Boy

395 (58.1)

106 (26.8)

289 (73.2)

 

 Girl

285 (41.9)

68 (23.9)

217 (76.1)

 

Residence, n(%)

   

< 0.001

 Countryside

93 (13.7)

19 (10.9)

74 (14.6)

 

 Town

244 (35.9)

63 (36.2)

181 (35.8)

 

 Urban

182 (26.8)

68 (39.1)

114 (22.5)

 

 Unknown

161(23.7)

24 (13.8)

137 (27.1)

 

Primary disease, n(%)

 Non-infectious

464 (68.2)

138 (79.3)

326 (64.4)

< 0.001

 Infectious

216 (31.8)

36 (20.7)

180 (35.6)

 
  1. * p value for medical withdrawing vs. premature withdrawing