Table 5

Primary outcomes of patients’ wishes known and fulfilled 6 months after discharge/intervention or after death

		Intervention n (%)	Control n (%)	P values	Missings (intervention/control)	MI P values
Resuscitation	Do you want to be resuscitated?			0.014	32/21	0.037
	Yes	6 (24)	13 (35)
	No	18 (72)	13 (35)
	Leave decision to surrogate or physician	1 (4)	5 (14)
	Undecided	0 (0)	6 (16)
	Congruency between patient, surrogate and physician			0.006	23/12	0.008
	Present	21 (62)	14 (30)
	Absent	13 (38)	32 (70)
	Wish documented			0.021	22/13	0.041
	Yes	31 (89)	29 (64)
	No	4 (11)	16 (36)
	Wish fulfilled			0.821	12/2	1.000
	Yes	6 (13)	5 (9)
	No	1 (2)	2 (4)
	Unclear/not applicable	38 (84)	49 (88)
Last place of care	Preferred last place of care?			0.824	32/21	0.994
	At home	17 (68)	20 (54)
	Nursing home	2 (8)	4 (11)
	Hospice	1 (4)	1 (3)
	Hospital	4 (16)	7 (19)
	Intensive care unit	0 (0)	0 (0)
	Unsure	0 (0)	2 (5)
	Don’t know	1 (4)	3 (8)
	Congruency between patient, surrogate and physician			0.059	23/12	0.039
	Present	15 (44)	11 (24)
	Absent	19 (56)	35 (76)
	Wish documented			0.001	22/13	0.002
	Yes	17 (49)	6 (13)
	No	18 (51)	39 (87)
	Wish fulfilled			0.045	12/2	0.079
	Yes	13 (29)	6 (11)
	No	7 (16)	7 (13)
	Unclear / not applicable	25 (56)	43 (77)
Hospitalisation	Were you hospitalised in the past six months?			0.295	22/14	0.446
	Yes	19 (54)	29 (66)
	No	16 (46)	15 (34)
Mortality	When did the patient die?			0.301	12/2	0.837
	Within 6 months after inclusion	19 (42)	16 (29)
	After 6 months after inclusion	11 (24)	14 (25)
	Alive/unclear	15 (33)	26 (46)