Table 4

Questions about the decisions by country

	No information situation			DNR order situation			Advance directive situation
	Sw	Ge	Ru	Sw	Ge	Ru	Sw	Ge	Ru
Difficulty of the decision
No difficulty	12	29	33	18	18	37	17	17	43
Very little difficulty	32	23	25	24	24	25	33	27	21
Little difficulty	16	25	22	25	22	20	18	28	20
Some difficulty	39	18	13	30	32	15	29	24	11
Very difficult	1	5	7	3	4	3	3	4	5
Differences (χ²; df; p)	44.38;8;<.0001			33.76;8;<.0001			56.17;8;<.0001
Help by patient's directive				23	35	52
Not at all				18	14	17	24	28	52
Very little				28	14	6	12	13	13
A little				19	19	13	22	18	10
Some				12	18	12	27	23	12
Much							15	18	13
Differences (χ²; df; p)				50.92;8;<.0001			42.82;8;<.0001