. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Sep 29.

Published in final edited form as: Crit Care Med. 2009 Mar;37(3):919–925. doi: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e31819613ce

Table 2.

Advance Directives in Chronic Critical Illness (N = 203)


	Before RCU Admission	After RCU Admission	Total
Health Care Proxy Appointment
N (%)	37 (18.2)	6 (3.0)	43 (21.2)

Advance Directive^a
N (%)	31 (15.2)	2 (1.0)	33 (16.2)

Do-Not-Attempt-Resuscitation Directive
N (%)	27 (13.3)	44 (21.7)	71 (35.0)

Includes living wills or other written and verbal advance directives (but not health care proxy appointment nor resuscitation directive, which are given separately