Table 1 Primary and secondary outcomes

Primary outcome

Patients who participated in a conversation on end-of-life treatment

Secondary outcomes

Patient’s hopes and worries for the future

Patient’s wishes for a proxy, information to oneself and NOK, and patient wishes for participation in decision-making processes

Patient’s competence to consent in relation to conversations on future life-prolonging treatment

Wishes regarding life-prolonging treatment or hospitalization

Were these wishes:

Patient’s own wishes regarding life-prolonging treatment or hospitalization?

NOK’s knowledge of the patients’ wishes regarding life-prolonging treatment or hospitalization?

NOK’s own opinion on life-prolonging treatment or hospitalization?

Patients opting for life-prolonging treatment or hospitalization

Life-prolonging treatments and hospitalizations

Life-prolonging treatments and hospitalizations decided against

Patient’s competence to consent is assessed when life-prolonging treatments or hospitalizations were given or decided against

Concordance between patient wishes and treatment given