Transition to end-of-life care in patients with neurological diseases in an acute hospital ward

BMC Neurology

Table 2 Cox regression of the hazard rate of end-of-life care decisions

Variable	Hazard rate of end-of-life care decision following admission to the neurological ward					95% CI for Exp(B)		Hazard rate of death following a decision of end-of-life care					95% CI for Exp(B)
Variable	B	SE	Wald	Sign	Exp (B)	Lower	Upper	B	SE	Wald	Sign	Exp (B)	Lower	Upper
Age	0.023**	0.008	7.807	0.005	1.023	1.007	1.039	-0.001	0.007	0.043	0.836	0.999	0.985	1.012
Gender (1 = male)	0.062	0.172	0.130	0.719	1.064	0.760	1.489	-0.075	0.172	0.189	0.664	0.928	0.663	1.300
Married/cohabiting^a	0.024	0.179	0.018	0.894	1.024	0.721	1.455	0.238	0.176	1.835	0.176	1.269	0.899	1.790
Ischaemic stroke^b	0.498**	0.237	4.417	0.036	1.645	1.034	2.618	-0.079	0.229	0.119	0.730	0.924	0.590	1.447
Haemorrhagic stroke^b	0.714**	0.263	7.358	0.007	2.043	1.219	3.423	-0.171	0.260	0.434	0.510	0.843	0.506	1.403
Treatment directives	-0.210	0.192	1.198	0.274	0.810	0.556	1.181	0.110	0.204	0.290	0.590	1.116	0.748	1.665

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