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Table 1 Hospital characteristics and their relationship with cardiac arrest of potential brain death donors

From: Positive impact of a clinical goal-directed protocol on reducing cardiac arrests during potential brain-dead donor maintenance

Characteristic

Notifying hospitals

Cardiac arrests/eligible for donation

p value

OR (95 % CI)

Total, n (%)

27 (100)

141/465 (30.3)

  

Hospital beds, n (%)

  < 150 beds

10 (37.0)

29/62 (46.7)

0.002

2.28 (1.32; 3.93)

 150–250 beds

10 (37.0)

65/217 (29.9)

0.87

 

  > 250 beds

7 (25.9)

47/186 (25.2)

0.053

0.66 (0.44; 1.0)

ICU beds, n (%)

  < 5 %

5 (18.5)

44/131 (33.5)

0.33

 

 5–10 %

15 (55.6)

89/294 (30.3)

0.97

 

  > 10 %

7 (25.9)

14/39 (35.8)

0.43

 

Teaching, n (%)

 Yes

15 (55.6)

101/329 (30.7)

0.78

 

 No

12 (44.4)

40/136 (29.4)

  

Trauma referral center, n (%)

 Yes

15 (55.6)

112/354 (31.6)

0.27

 

 No

12 (44.4)

29/111 (26.1)

  

Transplant center, n (%)

 Yes

6 (22.2)

44/211 (20.8)

<0.001

0.42 (0.28; 0.65)

 No

21 (78.8)

97/254 (38.1)

  

Onsite training, n (%)

 Yes

8 (29.7)

69/238 (28.9)

0.52

 

 No

19 (70.3)

72/227 (31.7)

  

Transplant coordination unit connected to the ICU, n (%)

 Yes

17 (63.0)

113/394 (18.2)

0.07

0.61 (0.36; 1.04)

 No

10 (37.0)

28/70 (25.9)

  

Public administration, n (%)

 Yes

22 (81.5)

137/433 (31.6)

0.02

3.23 (1.11; 9.41)

 No

5 (18.5)

4/31 (12.3)

  
  1. For variables with more than two categories, each category was compared with the sum of the others
  2. OR odds ratio, CI confidence interval