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Table 1 Sample guiding questions used to facilitate groups and interview participants. Latinos without ESRD (n=47) and on dialysis (n=26)

From: Intensive procedure preferences at the end of life (EOL) in older Latino adults with end stage renal disease (ESRD) on dialysis

• What have you done to prepare for end of life/death?

• Would you want these procedures done to you (images shown):

 ◦ intubation and mechanical ventilation

 ◦ tracheostomy

 ◦ hemodialysisa

 ◦ gastrostomy tube insertion for enteral nutrition

 ◦ central venous catheter for parenteral nutrition

 ◦ cardiopulmonary resuscitation

• When is it acceptable to do these procedures?

• When would it be wrong to do these procedures to someone?

• How did you decide what treatment you or a loved one should have?

• Who should decide what treatment you or a loved one should have?

  1. a Hemodialysis question only pertains to non-hemodialysis focus groups