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From: Recognizing difficult trade-offs: values and treatment preferences for end-of-life care in a multi-site survey of adult patients in family practices

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Box-plots of relationship between importance ratings for values and preference option for life-sustaining treatment, CPR – cardiopulmonary resuscitation. 1 = Use comfort measures only with a focus on improving my quality of life and comfort. Allow natural death and no artificial prolongation of life and no resuscitation. 2, 3, 4 = combined categories of: Use full medical care to prolong my life but if my heart or my breathing stops, no resuscitation (CPR) or breathing machine; Use machines only in the short term to see if I will get better but if my illness is prolonged, change focus to comfort measures only. If my heart stops, no resuscitation (CPR); Use machines and all possible measures with a focus on keeping me alive but if my heart stops, no resuscitation. 5 = Use machines and all possible measures including resuscitation (CPR) with a focus on keeping me alive at all costs

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BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

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