Acute cardiac care & resuscitationCross-sectional study
Most Older Long-Term Care Residents in Oslo Have Documented Do-Not-Resuscitate Status: A Cross-Sectional Study
- cross-sectional study
- register data
- multivariable logistic regression
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
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
Documented positive CPR status (CPR should be attempted)
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:10.1016/j.resuscitation.2026.111344
Summarised from the published abstract; every number is checked against it