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. 2013 Sep 5;8(9):e72465. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0072465

Table 2. Advance Care Planning Engagement Survey – Action Measures: Advance Care Planning Domains and Questions.

Domain* Questions
DM - Have you already decided who you want your medical decision maker to be?
- Have you already formally asked someone to be your medical decision maker?
- Have you talked with your doctor about who you want your medical decision maker to be?
- Have you signed official papers naming a person or group to make medical decisions for you?
QOL - Have you already decided whether or not certain health situations would make your life not worth living?
- Have you talked with your decision maker about whether certain health situations would make your life not worth living?
- Have you talked with your doctor about whether certain health situations would make your life not worth living?
- Have you signed official papers about your wishes for medical care if you were seriously ill or dying in writing?
Flexibility - Have you decided how much flexibility to give a medical decision maker if they have to make decisions on your behalf?
- Have you talked with your medical decision maker about how much flexibility you want to give her/him?
- Have you talked with your doctor about how much flexibility you want to give your medical decision maker?
- Have you signed official papers to put your wishes about how much flexibility to give your decision maker in writing?
Ask Questions - Have you decided on questions you will ask your doctors to make good medical decisions?
- Have you ever ask your doctor about the risks of treatment
- Have you ever ask your doctor about the benefits of treatment
- Have you ever ask your doctor about your other options to the treatments the doctors were suggesting?
- Have you ever ask your doctor about what your quality of life would be like after starting a treatment?
- Have you ever ask your doctor about to repeat information if you did not understand it the first time?
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Decision Maker (DM), Quality of life and what is most important in life (QOL).