Table 2 Provision and onset of generalist and specialist palliative care for patients in the participating general practices who died in 2018 and 2020
From: Quality of end-of-life care in general practice – a pre–post comparison of a two-tiered intervention
Indicator | t0 | t1 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
n | % | n | % | ||
Number of patients receiving generalist outpatient PC (t0: N = 302; t1: N = 154) | yes | 85 | 28.1 | 33 | 21.4 |
no | 215 | 71.2 | 117 | 76.0 | |
missing value | 2 | 0.7 | 4 | 2.6 | |
Onset of generalist outpatient PC prior to death (in days) (t0: N = 85; t1: N = 33) | 0–3 | 10 | 11.8 | 3 | 9.1 |
4–10 | 13 | 15.3 | 3 | 9.1 | |
11–20 | 11 | 12.9 | 3 | 9.1 | |
21–30 | 7 | 8.2 | 0 | 0.0 | |
31–60 | 9 | 10.6 | 3 | 9.1 | |
61–120 | 7 | 8.2 | 3 | 9.1 | |
121–240 | 5 | 5.9 | 5 | 15.1 | |
≥241 | 10 | 11.8 | 4 | 12.1 | |
missing value | 13 | 15.3 | 9 | 27.3 | |
Number of patients receiving specialist outpatient PC (t0: N = 302; t1: N = 154) | yes | 56 | 18.5 | 35 | 22.7 |
no | 241 | 79.8 | 115 | 74.7 | |
missing value | 5 | 1.7 | 4 | 2.6 | |
Onset of specialist outpatient PC prior to death (in days)* (t0: N = 56; t1: N = 35) | 0–3 | 4 | 7.1 | 3 | 8.6 |
4–10 | 12 | 21.4 | 7 | 20.0 | |
11–20 | 4 | 7.1 | 2 | 5.7 | |
21–30 | 9 | 16.1 | 2 | 5.7 | |
31–60 | 8 | 14.3 | 3 | 8.6 | |
61–120 | 10 | 17.9 | 5 | 14.3 | |
121–240 | 3 | 5.4 | 0 | 0.0 | |
≥241 | 3 | 5.4 | 5 | 14.3 | |
missing value | 3 | 5.4 | 8 | 22.9 | |