Urban hospice | Rural clinic | |
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Patient data capture | ||
Time period of data collection | 197 days (Sep 14 – Mar 15) | 297 days (Aug 14 – May 15) |
Number of patients recorded on application | n = 381 | n = 74 |
Number of consultations recorded | n = 474 | n = 88 |
Number of patients with 1 consultation | n = 314 | n = 60 |
Number of patients with 2 consultations | n = 44 | n = 13 |
Number of patients with 3 consultations | n = 18 | n = 1 |
Number of patients with 4 consultations | n = 5 | n = 0 |
Median initial pain score (1 - 5) | 3 (n = 57; 12 % of consultations) | 3 (n = 69; 78 % of consultations) |
Mobile phone contact details recorded | n = 68 (18 % of patients) | n = 41 (55 % of patients) |
Prescribing data | ||
Median number of prescriptions per consultation | n = 2(range = 8) | n = 0 (range = 4) |
Number of consultations with no prescription | n = 68 | n = 57 |
Number of consultations with 1 drug prescribed | n = 58 | n = 12 |
Number of consultations with 2 drugs prescribed | n = 134 | n = 14 |
Number of consultations with 3 drugs prescribed | n = 99 | n = 3 |
Number of consultations with >3 drugs prescribed | n = 119 | n = 2 |
Number of individual drugs prescribed at site | n = 474a | n = 57 |
Morphine prescribing | ||
Total morphine prescriptions (% of all consultations) | n = 281 (59.03 %) | n = 26 (29.21 %) |
Morphine (oral or MST) only | n = 65 (13.66 %) | n = 11 (12.34 %) |
Morphine and laxative | n = 216 (45.33 %) | n = 15 (16.85 %) |
Laxative only | n = 23 (4.83 %) | n = 0 (0 %) |
Prescription(s) not including morphine or laxative | n = 172 (36.13 %) | n = 62 (69.66 %) |
Proportion of all morphine prescriptions with laxative | 76.87 % | 57.69 % |
Proportion of all morphine prescriptions without laxative | 23.13 % | 42.31 % |