Fig. 1
From: Validation of END-of-life ScorING-system to identify the dying patient: a prospective analysis
The enrollment process. Over the entire population potentially eligible for this prospective study, 194 patients were excluded because admitted in the ICU for comfort measure only (CMO), for lack of family members (required for the qualitative analysis of the study, data not presented), or because pregnant or prisoner. In order to consider only “long term” ICU patients, those with an ICU length of stay (LoS) < 4 days were excluded. Finally, 103 patients refused to be enrolled in this observational study, forms were not completed for 43 patients (1 consent form and 42 clinical data forms) and 23 patients were excluded because not English or Italian native speaking