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Table 2 Patient characteristics

From: A prospective study on the characteristics and subjects of pediatric palliative care case management provided by a hospital based palliative care team

Patients

MD

27

NMD

43

Characteristics

Age (years) median

(range)

10.2

(3.5–19.4)

4.0

(0.0–18.1)

Male/female

15/12

22/21

Disease

CNS tumor

11

Neuro- muscular

18

 

Solid tumor

11

Congenital/syndromal

17

 

Bone tumor

4

Metabolic

5

 

Leukemia

1

Other

3

N and (median duration in days)

N (median)

N (median)

Clinical admissionsa

23 (3)

15 (8)

PICU admissions

0

2 (1–10)

Day hospital admissionsa

57

5

Patients admitted

14

13

Indications for admission N

Anti-cancer therapy

59 (1)

0

Infection

6 (5.5)

11 (9)

Symptom treatment

5 (3)

6 (1)

Diagnostics

4 (1.5)

0

Transfusions

4 (1.5)

0

Other

2 (5.5)

2 (5.5)

Respiratory support

0

1 (8)

  1. Characteristics of the patient cohort of the PPCT, including hospital admissions and admission days, during 89 day study period
  2. The disease group “other” in NMD consists of patients with chronic complex diseases: one with respiratory disease, one with gastro-intestinal disease and one with neurologic impairment as a complication of a herpes encephalitis
  3. Abbreviations: CNS Central nervous system, MD malignant disease, NMD non-malignant disease
  4. aClinical admissions are hospital admissions with at least 1 night spent at the hospital. Day hospital admissions are hospital admissions with a duration of no more than one day
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BMC Palliative Care

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