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Table 3 Patient and Caregiver Experience of and Preferences for Decision Making

From: Family dynamics in a multi-ethnic Asian society: comparison of elderly CKD patients and their family caregivers experience with medical decision making for managing end stage kidney disease

 

Patients

Caregivers

When making decisions about your health and health care, who do you want to make the final decisions? (i.e., preference for decision making)

 Patient only

38% (31–47)a

40% (32–48)

 Patient’s family only

17% (12–24)

13% (8–20)

 The doctor only

8% (4–13)

3% (1–7)

 Patient and family only

13% (8–19)

17% (12–24)

 Patient and doctor only

3% (1–7)

3% (1–7)

 Patient’s family and doctor only

1% (0.2–5)

6% (3–11)

 Patient, family and doctor

20% (14–27)

18% (13–26)

When making decisions about your health and health care, who usually makes the final decisions? (i.e., experience with decision making)

 Patient only

27% (20–34)

21% (15–29)

 Patient’s family only

5% (2–10)

8% (4–13)

 The doctor only

5% (2–10)

1% (0.02–4)

 Patient and family only

16% (10–23)

19% (13–26)

 Patient and doctor only

5% (2–9)

5% (2–10)

 Patient’s family and doctor only

6% (3–11)

7% (3–12)

 Patient, family and doctor

36% (29–45)

39% (31–47)

  1. a95% confidence intervals are presented in parentheses