Fig. 2

Attitude score indexed by 12-item Questionnaire exploring EoL Practices. Each pair of box and whisker plots is related to a single practice. Ends of whiskers show minimum and maximum values, the lower and upper part of the boxes refer to 25th–75th percentile respectively, the line inside boxes the median value and the symbol within each box the mean value (outliers excluded). The asterisk symbol shows statistically significant difference in the attitude score between a positive and negative responses. WH Withhold, WD withdraw