One-year survival after critical care as a decision basis for advance care directives in general medicine: Real word data analysis of 149,144 patients

Constantin Unger; Felix Werner; Bettina Engel; Thomas Kühlein; Christoph Schulz; Christian Kümpel; Johannes Gorkotte; Susann Hueber

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0326031

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One-year survival after critical care as a decision basis for advance care directives in general medicine: Real word data analysis of 149,144 patients

Constantin Unger ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: constantin.unger@uk-erlangen.de

Affiliation Allgemeinmedizinisches Institut, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany

https://orcid.org/0009-0002-9831-9142

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Felix Werner,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Allgemeinmedizinisches Institut, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
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Bettina Engel,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Allgemeinmedizinisches Institut, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
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Thomas Kühlein,

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Allgemeinmedizinisches Institut, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
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Christoph Schulz,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation GWQ Service Plus AG, Düsseldorf, Germany
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Christian Kümpel,

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation GWQ Service Plus AG, Düsseldorf, Germany
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Johannes Gorkotte ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Johannes Gorkotte, Susann Hueber

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Allgemeinmedizinisches Institut, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
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Susann Hueber

Contributed equally to this work with: Johannes Gorkotte, Susann Hueber

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Allgemeinmedizinisches Institut, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
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One-year survival after critical care as a decision basis for advance care directives in general medicine: Real word data analysis of 149,144 patients

Constantin Unger,
Felix Werner,
Bettina Engel,
Thomas Kühlein,
Christoph Schulz,
Christian Kümpel,
Johannes Gorkotte,
Susann Hueber

Published: June 27, 2025
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0326031

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