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.