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Table 3 Preferences for care if life supports were needed to stay alive

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

Response item

% (n)

All possible measures including resuscitation (CPR)

8 (65)

All possible measures, no resuscitation.

4 (35)

Machines only in the short term, change focus to comfort measures, no resuscitation (CPR) or breathing machines.

36 (294)

Use full medical care, no resuscitation (CPR) or breathing machines

7 (55)

Comfort measures only

30 (239)

Unsure

13 (106)

Missing or declined

2 (16)

  1. CPR cardiopulmonary resuscitation