Table 2.

Factors Associated with Greater willingness to Undergo Therapy (i.e. Willing to Undergo Therapy at Higher Likelihoods of Adverse Outcome)

	Scenario
	Willingness to undergo high-burden therapy to avoid risk of death	Willingness to risk physical disability to avoid death	Willingness to risk cognitive disability to avoid death
	Adjusted odds ratio (95% confidence interval)
Time in months	0.94 (0.92, 0.96)	0.98 (0.97, 1.00)	0.97 (0.95, 0.99)
Age	0.97 (0.94, 1.01)	0.97 (0.95, 1.00)	1.00 (0.97, 1.03)
Female gender	0.52 (0.28, 0.96)	1.00 (0.64, 1.56)	0.72 (0.46, 1.12)
Nonwhite	2.18 (0.70, 6.77)	2.66 (1.15, 6.12)	3.21 (1.43, 7.18)
Married	1.44 (0.77, 2.71)	1.77 (1.12, 2.78)	1.64 (1.04, 2.56)
Income just enough or not enough	0.38 (0.21, 0.70)	0.52 (0.34, 0.80)	–
Greater ADL disability	0.86 (0.77, 0.96)	–	–
Greater IADL disability	–	1.10 (1.04, 1.17)	–
Self-rated life expectancy
≥2 years	Reference	–	Reference
<2 years	0.88 (0.49, 1.56)		0.39 (0.25, 0.64)
Uncertain	1.70 (1.11, 2.60)		0.97 (0.70, 1.36)
Possesses living will	0.44 (0.26, 0.72)	0.50 (0.34, 0.73)	0.50 (0.34, 0.74)
Fair/poor/worst quality of life	–	0.65 (0.48, 0.88)	0.70 (0.52, 0.95)

ADL Activities of daily living, IADL instrumental activities of daily living