Describing Deaths over a Decade: The Final Week of Life Among Hospitalized Children with Cancer.

Half of the patients died in the intensive care unit (51%).

The majority (84%) of children did not receive cardiopulmonary resuscitation on their final day of life.

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation was associated with younger age ( p = 0.006), hematologic malignancies ( p = 0.037), and intensive care unit location ( p < 0.001).

Most patients were not on dialysis (84%), pressors (72%), or ventilated (60%) during the final 24 h of life.