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Table 4 Categories of animate Goals, absolute numbers, relative frequencies and examples

From: Advanced cancer patients’ construction of self during oncology consultations: a transitivity concordance analysis

The second participant

Frequency

%

Instance

Patient’s family and friends

Carer

3

10.35

I’ll make sure I can bring [carer’s name] next time …

Other family/friends

9

31.00

I was supposed to pick people up …

Surrogate decision-maker

3

10.35

We’re going to have a night this week when we sit down and go through the advance care directives and discuss which ones going to be the main that I put down or whether I put, can put both of them down…

Patient

10

34.50

... and then after five days I put myself back on the Warfarin.

Oncologist, Healthcare Personnel

4

13.80

… and then I cancelled them (the nurses)

Total

29

100.00