Table 2 Overall ranking and domain scores
From: Family members’ perceptions of end-of-life care across diverse locations of care
Overall ranking scale (on a scale from 1–10) | |
|---|---|
Question: In the last two days of care, how well did the doctors, nurses and other professional staff… | Average |
Provide medical care that respected his/her wishes? | 8.2 |
Make sure that [patient] died with dignity – that is died on her/his own terms? | 8.2 |
Make sure [patient’s] symptoms were controlled to a degree acceptable to her/him? | 8 |
Communicate with patient and family about the illness and likely outcomes of care? | 7.3 |
Provide emotional support for you and [patient’s] family and friends? | 6.8 |
What number would you give the overall care that [patient] received in the last two days of life? | 7.7 |
Scale score | 7.7 |
Comparison of Domain Scores (range: 0 to 1) | |
Advance care planning | 0.10 |
Coordination | 0.16 |
Focus on individual | 0.271 |
Informing & decision making | 0.301 |
Attend to family | 0.511 |