Table 3.
Continuity of Advance Care Planning Between Provider Offices and Hospital, and Between Provider Offices and Emergency Department
| |
AD or note containing preferences |
Note seeking AD or preferences |
“Full code” |
No AD or preference data |
Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Provider offices | Hospital | ||||
| AD or note containing preferences | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| Note seeking AD or preferences | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| “Full code” | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| No AD or preference data | 8 | 13 | 4 | 3 | 28 |
| Total | 12 | 18 | 4 | 7 | 41 |
| Emergency department | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AD or note containing preferences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 7 |
| Note seeking AD or preferences | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 5 |
| “Full code” | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| No AD or preference data | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 7 |
| Total | 0 | 1 | 0 | 18 | 19 |
Numbers in the table represent the number of patients with records containing information in the specified row and column header. Using the kappa statistic, concordance between settings on the level of advance care planning documentation was no greater than chance (for the provider office/hospital comparison, kappa = 0.05, p = 0.22; for the provider office/emergency department comparison, kappa = 0.09, p = 0.07).
Abbreviations: AD, advance directive.