Table 2 Description of palliative care and EOLD during COVID-19 pandemic

Personnel involved in EOLD process*, n (%)

 Attending physician

 Head of the ICU

 Patient’s relatives

 Attending nurse

 Consultant physician

 Matron/Head nurse

 Palliative care physician

Form of EOLD communication with patient’s family*, n (%)

 Family meeting

 Telephone call

 Meeting with patient’s family was not performed

 Videocall

Involvement of the patient's family regarding EOLD, n (%)

 Family/relatives were just informed about the decision;

 Patient was in comfort care if family/relatives did not disagree with the decision

 Family/relatives were included in the process, i.e. shared decisions

 Cannot answer as I was not involved in the decision process

 Family/relatives were just informed about the decision;

 Patient was in comfort care despite family’s disagreement

 Family/relatives were not informed about the decision

 Family/relatives were fully responsible for the decision

Inappropriate care of patient*, n (%)

 Yes, organ support was too long

 Yes, organ support was too extensive

 No

 Yes, organ support was not extensive enough

 Yes, organ support was too short

Physician

Express opinion about inappropriate care, Yes, n (%)^a

 Opinion respected, Yes^b

Nurse

Express opinion about inappropriate care, Yes, n (%)^a

 Opinion respected, Yes^b

Resource scarcity situation experience, n (%)

 No

 Yes, occasionally

 Yes, repeatedly

 Did not answer

Practice of comfort care was different during/before COVID-19 pandemic

 Strongly agree

 Somewhat agree

 Do not know

 Somewhat disagree

 Strongly disagree