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Table 1 Characteristic of children whose treatment was withdrawn

From: Withdrawal of treatment in a pediatric intensive care unit at a Children’s Hospital in China: a 10-year retrospective study

Variables Total, n = 680 Medical withdrawing, n = 174 Premature withdrawing, n = 506 p*
Age*, (month)     < 0.001
 Median(IRQ) 12.0 (3.0, 48.0) 24.0 (8.0,73.0) 8.00 (3.0,36.0)  
Days in ICU     0.695
 Median(IRQ) 2.0 (1.0,7.0) 3.00 (1.0,8.0) 2.00 (1.00,6.0)  
Gender, n(%)     0.380
 Boy 395 (58.1) 106 (26.8) 289 (73.2)  
 Girl 285 (41.9) 68 (23.9) 217 (76.1)  
Residence, n(%)     < 0.001
 Countryside 93 (13.7) 19 (10.9) 74 (14.6)  
 Town 244 (35.9) 63 (36.2) 181 (35.8)  
 Urban 182 (26.8) 68 (39.1) 114 (22.5)  
 Unknown 161(23.7) 24 (13.8) 137 (27.1)  
Primary disease, n(%)
 Non-infectious 464 (68.2) 138 (79.3) 326 (64.4) < 0.001
 Infectious 216 (31.8) 36 (20.7) 180 (35.6)  
  1. * p value for medical withdrawing vs. premature withdrawing