Table 5.
Content of ACP in correspondence of other healthcare provider (subgroup analyses for cancer, organ failure and multimorbidity patients)
| Items of ACP | Total (n = 119) |
Cancer (n = 55) |
Organ failure (n = 28) |
Multimorbidity (n = 36) |
P value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Documented treatment preferences for future care, n (%) | |||||
| Resuscitation | 33 (28) | 16 (29) | 11 (39) | 6 (17) | 0.129 |
| Mechanical ventilation | 9 (8) | 7 (13) | 1 (4) | 1 (3) | 0.150 |
| Intensive Care Unit admission | 20 (17) | 9 (16) | 9 (32) | 2 (6) | 0.019 |
| Referral to ED and hospitalization | 7 (6) | 3 (6) | 3 (11) | 1 (3) | 0.470 |
| Antibiotics | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | – |
| Artificial feeding and liquid administration | 1 (1) | 1 (2) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 1.000 |
| Other treatment preferences | 13 (11) | 9 (16) | 3 (11) | 1 (3) | 0.119 |
| Documented EoL wishes, n (%) | |||||
| Preferred place of care/death | 11 (9) | 8 (15) | 1 (4) | 2 (6) | 0.272 |
| Personal wishes/goals | 5 (4) | 4 (7) | 1 (4) | 0 (0) | 0.199 |
| Discussed future scenarios, n (%) | |||||
| Prognosis/life expectancy | 25 (21) | 21 (38) | 3 (11) | 1 (3) | 0.000 |
| Disease specific future scenarios | 13 (11) | 11 (20) | 1 (4) | 1 (3) | 0.017 |
| Concerns and hopes towards future | 5 (4) | 4 (7) | 0 (0) | 1 (3) | 0.439 |
| Conversation about palliative sedation | 4 (3) | 3 (6) | 1 (4) | 0 (0) | 0.358 |
| Conversation about euthanasia | 8 (7) | 6 (11) | 1 (4) | 1 (3) | 0.319 |
| Conversation ‘end-of-life’ | 2 (2) | 2 (4) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0.499 |