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Table 3 Treatments that were in place and then withdrawn from children

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

Treatments Total, n = 680,(%) Medical withdrawing, n = 174,(%) Premature withdrawing, n = 506,(%) p*
Intravenous 437 (64.3) 103 (59.2) 334 (66.0) 0.106
Ventilation 279 (41.0) 105 (60.3) 174 (34.4) < 0.001
Intubation 277 (40.7) 103 (59.2) 174 (34.4) < 0.001
Antimicrobial therapy 113 (16.6) 19 (10.9) 94 (18.6) 0.019
Inotropic and vasopressors 70 (10.3) 7 (4.0) 63 (12.5) 0.002
Dialysis 25 (3.7) 8 (4.6) 17 (3.4) 0.454
Transfusion of blood products 21 (3.1) 3 (1.7) 18 (3.6) 0.228
Nutrition 9 (1.3) 3 (1.7) 6 (1.2) 0.701
  1. * p value for medical withdrawing vs. premature withdrawing