Palliative patients cared for at home by PAMINO-trained and other GPs – health-related quality of life as measured by QLQ-C15-PAL and POS

Table 4 Results of the POS (sum and item scores)

	PG		CG
	n	M (SD)	n	M (SD)	p
POS (higher scores indicating worse care outcomes)
Sum score ^a	51	13.6 (5.8)	32	12.0 (6.5)	.26
Items ^b
Pain	55	1.8 (1.3)	32	1.4 (1.2)	.23
Other symptoms	56	1.8 (1.1)	32	1.6 (1.0)	.35
Feeling anxious	55	1.9 (1.1)	32	1.7 (1.2)	.39
Family anxious	56	2.5 (1.4)	32	2.3 (1.4)	.56
Information given	55	0.5 (1.2)	32	0.3 (0.7)	.30
Share feeling	56	0.6 (0.9)	32	0.5 (0.9)	.71
Life worthwhile	54	2.0 (1.4)	32	1.6 (1.4)	.16
Felt good	55	2.1 (1.3)	32	1.6 (1.3)	.15
Waste of time	56	0.3 (0.7)	32	0.3 (0.7)	.69
Practical problems	53	0.6 (1.1)	32	0.6 (1.1)	.81

^a Scale scores ranging from 0 to 40; ^b Item scale scores ranging from 0 to 4; PG patient group cared for by PAMINO-trained general practitioners, CG control group patients cared for by other general practitioners, M mean, SD standard deviation.

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