| AD | advanced directives |
| CFI | comparative fit index |
| CPR | cardiopulmonary resuscitation |
| GOC | goals-of-care |
| ICU | intensive care unit |
| IHCA | in-hospital cardiac arrest |
| IQR | interquartile range |
| LST | life-sustaining treatment |
| NFI | normed fit index |
| RMSEA | root mean square error of approximation |
| ROSC | return of spontaneous circulation |
| SDM | shared decision-making |
| SEM | structural equation model |
| SRMR | SRMR, standardized root mean square residual |
| TLI | Tucker–Lewis index |
| WLSMV | weighted least squares means and variance |