Fig 1.
Patient and proxy screening, study eligibility and enrollment.
Patients admitted to the medical ICU were eligible if they remained in the ICU for ≥24 hours. If the first proxy enrolled was not the patient's legal surrogate decision-maker under Maryland state law, then we attempted to also enroll the legal surrogate decisions-maker. a 42 patients were not visited by any friends or family members during their ICU stay b 11 patients had 2 proxies enrolled.
Table 1.
Characteristics of 122 interviewed proxies.
Table 2.
Proxy understandinga of code status at the time of interview.
Table 3.
Concordancea between preferred code status and actual code status.
Table 4.
Proxy-reported preferred code status in patients for whom comfort was not the prioritized goal of carea.