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Table 1 Underlying diseases according to physicians’ coding of main diagnoses

From: Usage of do-not-attempt-to-resuscitate orders in a Swedish community hospital – patient involvement, documentation and compliance

Disease N
Heart disease 311
Cancer 186
Multimorbidity 139
Diabetes mellitus 107
Lung disease 96
Stroke 64
Neurologic disease 55
Dementia 55
Psychiatric disease 52
Kidney failure 50
Autoimmune and endocrine disease 42
Gastrointestinal disease 39
None 23
Hematologic disease 10
Unknown 3