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Table 2 Characteristics of patient cohorts from countries which contributed more than 3% of the study population

From: The role of clinical phenotypes in decisions to limit life-sustaining treatment for very old patients in the ICU

Country

Number of patients

Withhold LST (%)

Withdraw LST (%)

Number of patients in specific phenotypes (%)

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

1

217

69 (32)

26 (12)

26 (12)

60 (28)

28 (13)

32 (15)

37 (17)

18 (8)

16 (7)

2

205

20 (10)

13 (6)

61 (30)

57 (28)

20 (10)

28 (14)

30 (15)

9 (4)

0 (0)

3

138

26 (19)

11 (8)

49 (36)

25 (18)

4 (3)

28 (20)

12 (9)

19 (14)

1 (1)

4

105

60 (57)

14 (13)

30 (29)

26 (25)

4 (4)

31 (30)

10 (10)

3 (3)

1 (1)

5

92

19 (21)

4 (4)

2 (2)

5 (5)

3 (3)

21 (23)

9 (10)

2 (2)

50 (54)

6

79

35 (44)

6 (8)

6 (8)

6 (8)

16 (20)

21 (27)

5 (6)

17 (22)

8 (10)

7

76

13 (17)

7 (9)

18 (24)

10 (13)

10 (13)

8 (11)

8 (11)

11 (14)

11 (14)

8

64

11 (17)

6 (9)

6 (9)

15 (23)

10 (16)

16 (25)

5 (8)

5 (8)

7 (11)

9

55

5 (9)

0 (0)

5 (9)

4 (7)

5 (9)

14 (25)

2 (4)

1 (2)

24 (44)

10

54

28 (52)

5 (9)

8 (15)

12 (22)

9 (17)

15 (28)

6 (11)

3 (6)

1 (2)