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Advance directives

Survey of primary care patients

Rory O’Sullivan, Kevin Mailo, Ricardo Angeles and Gina Agarwal
Canadian Family Physician April 2015; 61 (4) 353-356;

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  • Table 1.

    Patient demographic characteristics: N = 800.

    VARIABLEN (%)*
    Sex
      • Male312 (39.0)
      • Female488 (61.0)
    Age, y
      • 18–34191 (23.9)
      • 35–49234 (29.3)
      • 50–64188 (23.5)
      • 65–79147 (18.4)
      • ≥ 8040 (5.0)

    • ↵* Some values do not add to 100% owing to rounding.

  • Table 2.

    Context in which survey respondents discussed advance directives: N = 800.

    CONTEXTN (%)
    With their family or friends316 (39.5)
    With their lawyers87 (10.9)
    Before an important surgery54 (6.8)
    During an important hospital stay39 (4.9)
    With their family doctors34 (4.3)
    In another setting25 (3.1)
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Rory O’Sullivan, Kevin Mailo, Ricardo Angeles, Gina Agarwal
Canadian Family Physician Apr 2015, 61 (4) 353-356;
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