Checklist-guided Shared Decision-making for Code Status Discussions in Medical Inpatients.

This cluster-randomized, multicenter trial is designed to investigate the effect of checklist-guided shared decision-making including decision aids and communication of expected outcome on patients' decision regarding their code status, and at the same time, if it improves decision-making quality as judged by patient's decisional comfort, patient knowledge and involvement in decision-making and patient satisfaction. Patients in whom resuscitation is considered as futile will be treated separately in an ancillary project. In these patients a checklist to communicate the futility and the medical consequences will be used.