Excluding patients with DNR/DNI/Comfort Measures Only

[Shaun2406]

If I wanted to exclude patients who had "do not resuscitate" or "comfort measures only" assigned, is the best way to do this using the 'carePlanEOL' table, and should I exclude all patients who are present in this table or only those who have 'activeupondischarge' as 'true'. I'm unclear as to whether those with 'activeupondischarge' as 'false' had an EOL discussion but decided against EOL care or if they were put into EOL care and then had this revoked when they began to recover.

[willemvandenboom]

65 might answer your question.

[Shaun2406]

Great, thanks!

[alistairewj]

Yep and I'd also add to this that you should look at carePlanGeneral - specifically cplgroup = 'Care Limitation'' - lots of data there:

SELECT cplgroup, cplitemvalue, count(*) FROM `physionet-data.eicu_crd.careplangeneral` group by 1,2 order by 1,2

cplgroup	cplitemvalue	row count
Care Limitation	Advance directives	118
Care Limitation	Comfort measures only	4848
Care Limitation	Do not resuscitate	35679
Care Limitation	Full therapy	177589
Care Limitation	No CPR	8627
Care Limitation	No augmentation of care	1688
Care Limitation	No blood draws	137
Care Limitation	No blood products	265
Care Limitation	No cardioversion	4315
Care Limitation	No intubation	8168

[Shaun2406]

That's great thanks Alistair, exactly what I was looking for!