Table 5 Total service use: comparison of RRS users (N = 247) and non-users (N = 441), by days in the study
From: Impact of a hospice rapid response service on preferred place of death, and costs
Days in study (time between referral to hospice and death) | |||||||||||
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Service type | 0-2 days | 3-14 days | 15-30 days | 31-60 days | >60 days | ||||||
Study Group | Non-User | User | Non-User | User | Non-User | User | Non-User | User | Non-User | User | |
Number in Group | 17 | 7 | 52 | 28 | 37 | 30 | 58 | 36 | 103 | 58 | |
All GP/primary contactsa | No (%) with > =1 contact | 5 (29.4) | 4 (57.1) | 22 (42.3) | 19 (67.9) | 25 (67.6) | 27 (90.0) | 46 (79.3) | 33 (91.7) | 94 (91.3) | 56 (96.6) |
Median contacts, IQR | 0,0-1 | 1,0-1 | 0,0-1 | 1,0-3 | 1,0-2 | 2,0.1-2 | 2,0-4 | 2.5,0.7-4 | 4,1-8 | 6,1.9-8.5 | |
MWU | 0.285 | 0.011 | 0.078 | 0.539 | 0.031 | ||||||
Number in Group | 31 | 9 | 76 | 42 | 66 | 52 | 100 | 47 | 168 | 97 | |
All Community contactsb | No (%) with > =1 contact | 16 (51.6) | 8 (88.9) | 36 (47.4) | 34 (81.0) | 39 (59.1) | 45 (86.5) | 83 (83.0) | 43 (91.5) | 132 (78.6) | 93 (95.9) |
Median contacts, IQR | 1,0-4 | 7,0-8 | 0,0-5 | 11.5,0-17 | 2.6,0-7.5 | 13.5,0-21.25 | 7.5,0-15.75 | 15,0.80-34 | 12,0-30.5 | 26,5-43 | |
MWU | 0.024 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.004 | 0.000 | ||||||
All Acute contactsc | No (%) with > =1 contact | 1 (3.2) | 0 (0) | 19 (25.0) | 3 (7.1) | 30 (45.5) | 19 (36.5) | 64 (64.0) | 25 (53.2) | 135 (80.4) | 82 (84.5) |
Median contacts, IQR | 0,0-0 | 0,0-0 | 0,0-0.75 | 0,0-0 | 0,0-2 | 0,0-1.75 | 1,0-7.75 | 1,0-5 | 6,0-15 | 4,0-12 | |
MWU | 0.590 | 0.014 | 0.426 | 0.369 | 0.231 | ||||||
All Marie Curie visitsd | No (%) with > =1 contact | 1 (3.2) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 7 (16.7) | 0 (0) | 9 (17.3) | 2 (2.0) | 5 (10.6) | 3 (1.8) | 12 (12.4) |
Median visits, IQR | 0,0-0 | 0,0-0 | 0,0-0 | 0,0-0 | 0,0-0 | 0,0-0 | 0,0-0 | 0,0-0 | 0,0-0 | 0,0-0 | |
MWU | 0.590 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.022 | 0.000 | ||||||
All Out-of-hours contactse | No (%) with > =1 contact | 2 (6.5) | 2 (22.2) | 8 (10.5) | 16 (38.1) | 11 (16.7) | 18 (34.6) | 20 (20.0) | 17 (36.2) | 43 (25.6) | 46 (47.4) |
Median contacts, IQR | 0,0-0 | 0,0-0 | 0,0-0 | 0,0-1 | 0,0-0 | 0,0-1.75 | 0,0-0 | 0,0-1 | 0,0-1 | 0,0-2 | |
MWU | 0.170 | 0.000 | 0.016 | 0.034 | 0.000 | ||||||
Hospice Contactsf, not RRS | No (%) with > =1 contact | 31 (100) | 9 (100) | 76 (100) | 42 (100) | 66 (100) | 52 (100) | 100 (100) | 47 (100) | 168 (100) | 97 (100) |
Median contacts, IQR | 1,1-3 | 1,1-1.5 | 4,1-7.75 | 3,1-4 | 10,1.7-16.2 | 3.5,2-6 | 4.5,2-13.5 | 6,2-13 | 11,2-28 | 13,4-26.5 | |
MWU | 0.170 | 0.404 | 0.000 | 0.161 | 0.302 | ||||||
Social servicesg | No (%) > =1 service | 1 (3.2) | 1 (11.1) | 8 (10.7) | 3 (7.1) | 5 (7.6) | 9 (17.3) | 22 (22.0) | 6 (12.8) | 24 (14.3) | 21 (81.6) |
MWU | 0.345 | 0.536 | 0.104 | 0.158 | 0.167 | ||||||
Hospice RRS | No (%) used RRS | 0 | 9 (100) | 0 | 42 (100) | 0 | 52 (100) | 0 | 47 (100) | 0 | 97 (100) |
Median visits, IQR | 4,1-8 | 11,2-23 | 9.50,1-27 | 12,1-33 | 14,1.8-33.5 | ||||||
Median hours, IQR | 8,4-9.2 | 15.1,4-28.4 | 10,2-31.5 | 12.7,2.9-50.4 | 18,2-47.9 | ||||||