{"id":2932,"date":"2015-05-16T15:05:22","date_gmt":"2015-05-16T12:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal-ene.gr\/?p=2932"},"modified":"2026-11-05T15:51:50","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T13:51:50","slug":"factors-which-influence-the-decision-of-dnr-on-malignancy-patients-comparison-of-views-between-patients-theit-first-degree-relatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/periodiko.yaba.gr\/en\/factors-which-influence-the-decision-of-dnr-on-malignancy-patients-comparison-of-views-between-patients-theit-first-degree-relatives\/","title":{"rendered":"Factors which influence the decision of DNR on malignancy patients. Comparison of views between patients &#038; theit first degree relatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Backround:<\/strong> Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is a procedure of successive actions in order to resuscitate\u00a0patients with cardiac arrest. CPR in patients with malignant, incurable disease has been a matter of debate\u00a0and nowadays, several nations have declared the patient\u2019s right to give the do not resuscitate order (DNR). In\u00a0Greece the view of the patients with malignancy on this matter, is not well documented.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Aim:<\/strong> The purpose of this study is to examine what factors influence the decision of DNR, in Greek patients with\u00a0malignancy, and to compare the views of the patients and their first degree relatives on this matter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Materials and Methods:<\/strong> In this study there were two groups of people: group A that included one hundred\u00a0patients with malignancy, and group B that included one hundred first degree relatives of these patients. The\u00a0kind and the stage of the malignancy were not in the inclusion criteria. The total cohort of people was asked\u00a0to complete a questionnaire. One person interviewed the total cohort of participants. The interviews took place\u00a0in a quiet room. Univariate and multivariate analysis were conducted. Level of significance was set at &lt;0,05.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Results:<\/strong> In group A, 21% of patients would give the DNR order. The level of information of the patient (p=0,017),\u00a0the educational level (p=0,001), the presence of end stage disease (p=0,046), the combination of physician and\u00a0family, in decision making (p=0,001), and the fact that DNR must be implied in coma, cerebral injury and according\u00a0to the patient\u2019s will were demonstrated as statistically significant with the univariate analysis. On the other hand\u00a0the educational level (p=0,013) and end stage disease (p=0,001) were shown independently statistically significant\u00a0following the multivariate analysis. In group B 16% of relatives would give the DNR order.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Conclusions:<\/strong> Statistically significant factors of group A were the presence of end stage disease and the\u00a0educational level of the patients. There was no statistically important factor for group B. Comparative analysis\u00a0of the views of groups A &amp; B documented no statistically important differences in the DNR order.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Keywords:<\/strong> cardiopulmonary resuscitation, do not resuscitate order, malignancy, incurable disease<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Backround: Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is a procedure of successive actions in order to resuscitate\u00a0patients with cardiac arrest. CPR in patients with malignant, incurable disease has been<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":-1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[593],"tags":[2326,2328,343,2325,2327],"eidos-arthrou":[1807],"keyword":[2228,2329,2331,2330],"language":[1842],"class_list":["post-2932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iss_2_4","tag-chaniotis-dimitrios","tag-kalaitzis-john","tag-lila-papadimitriou","tag-poutou-sophia","tag-xanthos-theodoros","eidos-arthrou-erevnitika-arthra","keyword-cardiopulmonary-resuscitation","keyword-do-not-resuscitate-order","keyword-incurable-disease","keyword-malignancy","language-greek"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/periodiko.yaba.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/periodiko.yaba.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/periodiko.yaba.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/periodiko.yaba.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/periodiko.yaba.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2932"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/periodiko.yaba.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9647,"href":"https:\/\/periodiko.yaba.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2932\/revisions\/9647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/periodiko.yaba.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/periodiko.yaba.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/periodiko.yaba.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2932"},{"taxonomy":"eidos-arthrou","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/periodiko.yaba.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/eidos-arthrou?post=2932"},{"taxonomy":"keyword","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/periodiko.yaba.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/keyword?post=2932"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/periodiko.yaba.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=2932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}