Figure 3. Stability of Survival Preference.

Pie graph showing proportions of 287 patients with stable or changing preferences in the 6 months after hospital discharge. Change was defined as movement between the 4 preference levels described in Table 1. Patients remaining in the highest survival preference are “stable high”, those remaining in the lowest survival preference are “stable low”. Patients remaining in one of the two other time-trade off groups are “stable mid-preference”. While the majority of patients demonstrated no change in preference, more patients described an increase than a decrease in preference for survival.