Table 4.
Patients’ (columns) and their providers’ (rows) first choices for health outcome priorities
| Provider Choice | Patient Choice | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maintaining Independence | Staying Alive | Reducing Pain | Reducing Other Symptoms | Total | |
| Maintaining independence | 50 (18.5) | 31 (11.4) | 9 (3.3) | 4 (1.5) | 94 (34.7) |
| Staying alive | 50 (18.5) | 38 (14.0) | 9 (3.3) | 10 (3.7) | 107 (39.5) |
| Reducing pain | 15 (5.5) | 9 (3.3) | 3 (1.1) | 2 (0.7) | 29 (10.7) |
| Reducing other symptoms | 12 (4.4) | 15 (5.5) | 3 (1.1) | 1 (0.4) | 31 (11.4) |
| Provider unsure | 6 (2.2) | 3 (1.1) | 1 (0.4) | 0 (0.0) | 10 (3.7) |
| Total | 133 (49.1) | 96 (35.4) | 25 (9.2) | 17 (6.3) | 271 (100) |
Numbers expressed as n (%).