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While some regard UDNAR orders as reducing non-beneficial treatment, others raise concerns around patient autonomy, potential discrimination, and the risk of relational stress between healthcare teams and families. Ethics consultation services (ECS) are often engaged when these decisions are disputed, but data on their role is limited. In this study, we conducted a retrospective analysis of ethics consultations over a 10-year period at a quaternary academic hospital to identify consultations involving UDNAR orders. We identified 58 ethics consultations (55 adult and 3 pediatric) requested in the context of UDNAR orders. There were thirty-seven (63.7%) cases in which the patient and\/or surrogate actively disagreed with the proposed code status change, 21 (36.2%) cases in which they assented. We explored contextual features and palliative care involvement using a qualitative conceptual content analysis. 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