Characteristics of patients participating in advance care planning conversations
| Gender | Age | Level of education | |||
| Female | 11 | Average | 69.4 | Lower secondary education | 1 |
| Upper secondary education, basic | 9 | ||||
| Male | 40 | Median | 70 | Upper secondary education, final | 16 |
| Postsecondary, non-tertiary education | 2 | ||||
| Range | 41–86 | Tertiary education, undergraduate level | 9 | ||
| Tertiary education, graduate level | 3 | ||||
| Unspecified education | 11 |
| Primary diagnosis | Additional diagnosis | ||
| COPD | 9 | Abdominal aortic aneurysm | 1 |
| Anxiety/depression/ psychiatric | 4 | ||
| Lung cancer | 41 | Cancer, other than principal | 8 |
| COPD/emphysema | 18 | ||
| Lung fibrosis | 1 | Heart disease | 24 |
| Hormonal disease | 4 | ||
| Infection | 9 | ||
| Respiratory failure | 9 | ||
| Thrombotic events | 5 | ||
| Other | 9 |
COPD, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.