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Table 1 Prevalence of palliative inpatients

From: Palliative inpatients in general hospitals: a one day observational study in Belgium

  

N

Palliative Patients

Non Palliative Patients

p-value

Type of beds

Surgery

727

16 (2.2%)

711(97.8%)

p ≤ 0,001

 

Rehabilitation

488

22 (4.5%)

466 (95.5%)

 
 

Medicine

1015

134 (13.2%)

881 (86.8%)

 
 

Geriatric

409

77 (18.8%)

332 (81.2%)

 

Region

Flanders

624

49 (7.9%)

575 (92.1%)

p ≤ 0,001

 

Wallonia

692

56 (8.1%)

636 (91.9%)

 
 

Brussels

534

85 (15.9%)

449 (84.1%)

 

Palliative care unit

With

1614

166 (10.3%)

1448 (89.7%)

p = 0.0610

 

Without

1025

83 (8.1%)

942 (91.9%)

 

Social status

Public

1111

96 (8.6%)

1005 (91.4%)

p = 0.2338

 

Private

1528

153 (10.0%)

1375 (90.0%)