Do-not-attempt-resuscitation orders and prognostic models for intraparenchymal hemorrhage.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Statistical models predicting outcome after intraparenchymal hemorrhage include patients irrespective of do-not-attempt-resuscitation orders. We built a model to explore how the inclusion of patients with do-not-attempt-resuscitation orders affects intraparenchymal hemorrhage prognostic models.

Design

Retrospective, observational cohort study from May 2001 until September 2003.

Setting

University-affiliated tertiary referral hospital in Seattle, WA.

Patients

Four hundred twenty-four consecutive patients with spontaneous intraparenchymal hemorrhage.

Measurements and main results

We retrospectively abstracted information from medical records of intraparenchymal hemorrhage patients admitted to a single hospital. Using multivariate logistic regres

SUBMITTER: Creutzfeldt CJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3199375 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature