From: Palliative care team in a Brazilian tertiary emergency department
Strategy I | Strategy II | p | |
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587 (48.8%) | 616 (51.2%) | ||
Male gender (%) | 321 (54.7) | 348 (56.5) | 0.528 |
Age in years (standard deviation) | 64.7 (16.4) | 66.2 (16.2) | 0.808 |
Attending clinic (%) | < 0.01 | ||
Surgery | 63(10.7) | 65(10.5) | |
Internal medicine | 231(39.3) | 375(57.9) | |
Neurology | 146(24.8) | 123(19.9) | |
Intensive care unity (ICU) | 120(20.4) | 47(7.6) | |
Ginecology | 27(4.6) | 24(3.9) | |
Enrollment location (%) | < 0.01 | ||
Intensive care unity (ICU) | 123(20.9) | 57(9.2) | |
General yard | 357(60.8) | 262(42.5) | |
Emergency department | 107(18.2) | 297(48.2) | |
Principal clinical condition (%) | 0.07 | ||
General internal medicine | 251(42.7) | 248(40.2) | |
Oncology | 163(27.7) | 200(32.4) | |
Stroke | 141(24.0) | 122(19.8) | |
Other | 32(5.4) | 46(7.4) | |
Outcome (%) | |||
Hospital discharge | 174(29.6) | 156(25.3) | 0.234 |
Hospital transfer | 174(29.6) | 156(25.3) | |
Death | 129(22.0) | 148(24.0) | |
Indicators | |||
Perception | |||
Total | 10.9(19.8) | 9.1(17.5) | < 0.01 |
Excluding in hospital death | 11.5(24.8) | 8.3(16.8) | < 0.01 |
Follow up | |||
Total | 12.7(14.7) | 12.3(27.5) | 0.289 |
Excluding in hospital death | 9.7(12.5) | 7.8(13.3) | < 0.01 |
Total hospital stay (days) | |||
Total | 24.3(30.4) | 20.7(37.1) | < 0.01 |
Excluding in hospital death | 20.0(19.9) | 17.6(24.1) | < 0.01 |
PPS | < 0.01 | ||
10 | 454(77.3) | 432(70.1) | |
20 to 30 | 83(14.1) | 99(16.0) | |
> 40 | 50(8.5) | 85(13.8) | |
ECOG = 4 | 528(89.9) | 529(85.9) | 0.03 |
Return to hospital after discharge | |||
> 1 | 64 (10.9) | 128(20.7) | 0.01 |
Demand | |||
Symptoms | 106(17.3) | ||
Prognostic evaluation | 347(56.7) | ||
Terminality | 159(26.0) |