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Fig. 2 | BMC Palliative Care

Fig. 2

From: Medical decisions concerning the end of life for cancer patients in three Colombian hospitals – a survey study

Fig. 2

Frequencies and combinations of (A) withdrawing of treatment decisions, and (B) no initiating treatment decisions. *Physicians could select several categories of A) withdrawing of treatment decisions, or B) no initiating treatment decisions. Upset plots (above) show 1) individual frequencies of each decision (horizontal blue bars, and 2) ranking of the most frequent selected decisions, being single decisions (single points) or in combination of two or more decisions (multiple points joined by a line) [20]. For example, chemotherapy was the most selected withdrawing of treatment decision and it was made as a single choice, and the combination of CPR, intubation and hemodynamic support was the most frequent no initiating treatment decision made

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