Full code is permission for a doctor to insert a tube into failing lungs, ... all patients are granted full-code status until their wishes can be verified though documents or conversation.

One study found more than half of participants with advanced cancer weren’t asked about code status on admission to the hospital, so they were entered in the computer as “presumed full code ...

A "cheat sheet" to track residents' code status has become a source of controversy in the case of a Minnesota man who died without being given CPR, according to local news sources.