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%) |