Table 3.
—Effect of Intervention on the Individual Components of the End-of-Life Quality of Communication Scale
| Itema | No. | Intervention Post QOC (mean, 95% CI) | Control Post QOC (mean, 95% CI) | Post QOC Difference (Intervention − Control) mean, 95% CI | P Value |
| Talking about your feelings about getting sicker | 243 | 47.0 (41.2, 52.7) | 34.2 (29.4, 39.0) | 12.8 (5.2, 20.4) | .001 |
| Talking about details if you got sicker | 242 | 37.7 (32.0, 43.4) | 33.3 (28.5, 38.0) | 4.5 (−3.1, 12.0) | .25 |
| Talking about how long you have to live | 252 | 22.9 (17.2, 28.5) | 15.6 (9.9, 21.3) | 7.2 (−0.8, 15.3) | .08 |
| Talking to you about what dying might be like | 252 | 11.1 (6.8, 15.4) | 8.4 (4.2, 12.5) | 2.8 (−3.3, 8.8) | .38 |
| Involving you in discussions about your care | 239 | 37.9 (30.0, 45.8) | 33.3 (25.6, 41.0) | 4.6 (−6.5, 15.8) | .42 |
| Asking you about important things in your life | 246 | 41.4 (32.9, 50.0) | 43.2 (34.6, 51.7) | 1.8 (−10.4, 13.9) | .78 |
| Asking about spiritual, religious beliefs | 253 | 18.0 (12.5, 23.5) | 8.5 (3.1, 13.9) | 9.4 (1.7, 17.2) | .02 |
Statistical comparisons adjusted for baseline rating for QOC item, age, log age, current smoker, past smoker, FEV1, and clustering of patients within clinician. See Table 2 legend for expansion of abbreviation.
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Questions are scaled 0 to 10 with 0 as the worst you could imagine and 10 as the best you could imagine.