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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Aug 13.
Published in final edited form as: J Clin Oncol. 2007 Feb 10;25(5):555–560. doi: 10.1200/JCO.2006.07.9046

Table 4.

End-of-Life Treatment Preferences and Advance Care Planning (N = 230)

Question Response No. of Patients %
Would you want the doctors here to do everything possible to keep you alive even if you were going to die in a few days anyway? Yes 59 26
No 171 74
Do you have a signed living will or durable power of attorney for health care, both or neither? Living will and/or durable power of attorney 109 47
Neither 121 53
Have you completed a do not resuscitate (DNR) order? Yes 62 27
No 168 73