Table 2 Proportion of patients with and without PCNs and frequency of PCNs in each diagnostic group
From: Identification of hospital patients in need of palliative care – a predictive score
Patients with PCNs (N = 2,757) | Patients without PCNs (N = 37,092) | p | Proportion of patients with PCNs relative to all patients of diagnostic group (%) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
N (%) | N (%) | |||
Metastases | 1068 (38.7) | 3188 (8.6) | <.001 | 25.1 |
Cancer | 1836 (66.6) | 9748 (26.3) | <.001 | 15.8 |
Anemia | 373 (13.5) | 2399 (6.5) | <.001 | 13.5 |
Acute renal failure | 99 (3.6) | 670 (1.8) | <.001 | 12.9 |
Liver cirrhosis | 122 (4.4) | 868 (2.3) | <.001 | 12.3 |
Dementia | 58 (2.1) | 416 (1.1) | <.001 | 12.2 |
Depression | 107 (3.9) | 999 (2.7) | <.001 | 9.7 |
Chronic renal failure | 283 (10.3) | 2667 (7.2) | <.001 | 9.6 |
AIDS/HIV | 11 (0.4) | 103 (0.3) | .250 | 9.6 |
Chronic heart failure | 178 (6.5) | 1692 (4.6) | <.001 | 9.5 |
Diabetes mellitus | 302 (11.0) | 3537 (9.5) | .015 | 7.9 |
COPD | 132 (4.8) | 1323 (3.6) | .001 | 9.1 |
Cardiomyopathy | 59 (2.1) | 691 (1.9) | .302 | 7.9 |
Coronary heart disease | 436 (15.8) | 5840 (15.7) | .923 | 6.9 |
Apoplectic insult | 74 (2.7) | 1613 (4.3) | <.001 | 4.4 |