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Table 1 Demographic and clinical characterization of patients and outcome indicators according to the patient identification strategy

From: Palliative care team in a Brazilian tertiary emergency department

 

Strategy I

Strategy II

p

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)

 
  1. 1-Perception index in days that represents the difference between the date of admission and the date of ECP care. 2-Follow-up index in days that represents the difference between the ECP service date and the outcome date. 3-Total hospitalization: index representing the difference between the hospitalization date and the outcome date. 4-PPS Palliative Performance Scale. 5-PS-ECOG Performance Status of the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group