Is the content of guidelines/pathways a barrier for the integration of palliative Care in Chronic Heart Failure (CHF) and chronic pulmonary obstructive disease (COPD)? A comparison with the case of cancer in Europe

Table 2 Correlation analysis between Integrated Palliative Care (IPC) score, quality of evidence and year of publication for cancer and Chronic Heart Failure/Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease guidelines/pathways

		Spearman Co-efficiency	p-value
IPC score vs level of quality of evidence	CHF/COPD	0.272	0.259
IPC score vs level of quality of evidence	Cancer	−0.164	0.162
IPC score vs year of publication	CHF/COPD	0.258	0.206
IPC score vs year of publication	Cancer	0.136	0.341
Level of quality of evidence vs year of publication	CHF/COPD	−0.055	0.898
Level of quality of evidence vs year of publication	Cancer	0.005	0.961

IPC Integrated Palliative Care, CHF Chronic Heart Failure, COPD Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

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