Of 380 patients, average age was 70.6 years, 48% were male, mean Charlson Comorbidity Index was 5.91 (SD=3.02), 80% had a DNR on file, 59% had GOC documentation, 58.7% expired and 3.4% were discharged to hospice. Principal diagnoses were intracranial hemorrhage (41.2%), cerebrovascular accident (18.5%), and cancer (9.0%).
Mean time to transfer to CC-GCS between early (1.37 days) and late (2.03 days) consult groups did differ, but this was not statistically significant (U=14481, p>0.1). No significant differences were found across all secondary outcomes (p>0.1) except for ICU LOS. Patients who received early consults (median=5.19) spent significantly fewer days in the ICU compared to those who received late consults (median=14.03), p<0.001. To account for LOS being artificially shortened due to patients expiring, a survival analysis was conducted and showed similar proportions of event occurrences regardless of consult group(Log-rank z=-0.99, p>0.1).