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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Jan 17.
Published in final edited form as: Acad Emerg Med. 2023 Oct 29;31(1):18–27. doi: 10.1111/acem.14818

Table 2.

The adjusted odds ratio in code status conversation practice patterns between emergency clinicians and palliative care clinicians (adjusted for the occupational role, years of clinical experience, and frequency of code status conversations)

Survey Questions Crude Odds Ratio (95% CI) p-value Adjusted for the occupational role, clinical experience, and frequency of code status conversation Adjusted for the occupational role, clinical experience, and frequency of code status conversation and institution
Adjusted Odds Ratio
(95% CI)
p-value Adjusted Odds Ratio
(95% CI)
p-value
Odds of asking procedure-based questions by emergency clinicians (reference = palliative care clinicians)
Ask “would your father want to be on a breathing machine?” 34.1 (14.1–82.7) <0.001 47.4 (15.3–147.6) <0.001 50.9 (15.9–162.4) <0.001
Ask “would your father want everything done?” 50.5 (6.8–375.1) <0.001 45.4 (5.9–346.9) <0.001 45.2 (5.9–345.4) <0.001
Ask “would your father want us to restart his heart if it stops?” 29.9 (12.5–71.6) <0.001 29.8 (10.6 –84.2) <0.001 31.1 (10.9–88.9) <0.001
Ask about the patient’s preference for central line placement. 28.7 (6.7–122.4) <0.001 22.6 (5.2 – 99.5) <0.001 22.8 (5.2 – 100.1) <0.001
Ask about the patient’s preference for vasopressors. 6.9 (2.8–17.2) <0.001 5.8 (2.2–15.4) <0.001 5.9 (2.2 – 15.5) <0.001
Explain the probability of survival from intubation and critical care. 0.6 (0.2–1.4) 0.221 0.8 (0.3–2.2) 0.678 0.8 (0.3 – 2.2) 0.702
Odds of asking procedure-based questions by palliative care clinicians (reference = emergency medicine clinicians)
Provide a recommendation to the patient or surrogate whether or not tointubate. 43.8 (12.9–149.2) <0.001 37.5 (10.0–140.9) <0.001 37.3 (9.9–139.9) <0.001
Ask “what would your father say would be most important to him if timewere to be short?” 22.8 (7.7–67.0) <0.001 16.4 (5.3–50.6) <0.001 20.3 (6.2–66.4) <0.001
Explore patient’s minimum quality of life that he would consider living. 14.4 (4.9–42.1) <0.001 11.5 (3.8–35.2) <0.001 11.7 (3.8–36.0) <0.001
Ask “how much more would your father say he would be willing to gothrough for possibility of more time?” 7.5 (3.6–15.9) <0.001 5.7 (2.5–13.3) <0.001 6.1 (2.6–14.3) <0.001
Ask “what could your father do on his good days in the past one month?” 6.3 (3.0–13.2) <0.001 4.9 (2.2–10.9) <0.001 5.0 (2.2–11.1) <0.001
Attempt to contact the patient’s primary outpatient clinician 3.0 (1.5–6.1) 0.002 2.4 (1.1–5.2) 0.026 2.4 (1.1–5.2) 0.027
Ask “what is your understanding of your father's illness?” 3.2 (0.7–14.3) 0.124 2.8 (0.6–13.5) 0.208 2.8 (0.6–13.9) 0.206