Acute cardiac care & resuscitation
Most Older Long-Term Care Residents in Oslo Have Documented Do-Not-Resuscitate Status: A Cross-Sectional Study
Authors' conclusion
Our findings provide population-level evidence on documented CPR status in long-term care and highlight the need for future research on how such decisions are made.
Study context
- Population
- Persons aged 50+ years admitted to public or private long-term care facilities in Oslo between 2018 and 2023nearly all persons aged 50+ years admitted to long-term care facilities in Oslo 2018–2023
- Participants
- 7,860 persons
- Exposure
- Associations between documented positive cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) status and age, sex, marital status, primary contact, functional limitations, institutional relocations, duration of stay, and year of admission
- Outcome
- Documented positive CPR status (CPR should be attempted)
Methodological detailsregister data, multivariable logistic regression
- Register data
- Multivariable logistic regression
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
Proportion of long-term care residents with documented positive CPR status
9.2%
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Further findings
Factors associated with documented positive CPR status
- Related to younger age, fewer limitations, shorter duration of stay, and fewer relocations
- Less likely among those first admitted between 2019 and 2022 compared with 2018, but not among those first admitted in 2023
- No evidence of relation to sex, marital status, primary contact
- Multivariable logistic regression
Original publication
Most Older Long-Term Care Residents in Oslo Have Documented Do-Not-Resuscitate Status: A Cross-Sectional Study. Resuscitation. Published 6 October 2026. doi:10.
Summarised from the published abstract; every number is checked against it