Table 2:

Questions Posed During Patient/Family and Physician Focus Groups

Patients and Family Members

1. What are your thoughts about the approach you just observed to in-hospital cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)?

2. How did what you just heard make you feel?

3. Would you want this type of approach to in-hospital CPR for yourself or your loved one? Why or why not?

4. If you were to receive this kind of news, who would you want to deliver it to you? Why?

5. Would you be willing to participate in a study in which you might receive this approach to discussing CPR?

Physicians

1. What are your thoughts about the approach you just observed to in-hospital CPR?

2. How do you think your patients would react to this approach regarding in-hospital CPR?

3. How did what you just heard make you feel?

4. Please describe your thoughts about using this type of approach with the patients you take care of who are chronically ill with reduced life expectancy.

5. Who do you think should deliver this news (i.e., perform this informed assent intervention) to appropriate patients?

6. Is there anything we should change about what was said for our future research?

7. Would you be willing to have your patients participate in a randomized trial that uses this “informed assent” approach?