Table 2.

Observational Data

Data source	Items
n/h file (all participants)	hospital stays; death; evidence of advance care plan/advance directive, if given: further details
hospital file (if given)	mode and cause of hospitalization
	length of stay in the hospital/in the intensive care unit
	index surgical or medical interventions, including CPR, endotracheal ventilation (days), feeding tube insertion, endoscopy and CT/MRI imaging
	evidence of advance care plan/AD: filed copy or note in discharge letter
file and last caregiver of deceased residents	place of dying
	CPR before death
	presence of an advance care plan (e.g., AD, POLST) before death
	caregiver's evaluation of the amount of suffering before death and of the appropriateness of palliative care
	advance directive or physician's note of therapy restriction