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Table 3 Demographics and Outcome of “Non-identified and “identified” patients (Criteria only)

From: The utility of a shortened palliative care screening tool to predict death within 12 months – a prospective observational study in two south African hospitals with a high HIV burden

 

“Non-identified”

“Identified”

 

N (604)

N (218)

Gender

 Male

280 (46%)

98 (45%)

 Female

324 (54%)

120 (55%)

Age

 Median (IQR)

49 (35–61)

61 (48–75)

 lowest - 30

100

14

 31–40

80

14

 41–50

104

20

 51–60

112

24

 61–70

56

44

 71–80

60

48

 81 and older

22

28

Primary diagnosis

 Infection (other than Tb)

123 (20.4%)

22 (10.1%)

 Tuberculosis

78 (12.9%)

14 (6.4%)

 Acute coronary syndrome

85 (14.1%)

8 (3.7%)

 Stroke

26 (4.3%)

40 (18.3%)

 CCF

22 (3.6%)

38 (17.4%)

 COPD

18 (3.0%)

20 (9.2%)

 Cancer

10 (1.7%)

18 (8.3%)

HIV status

 Uninfected

336 (55.6%)

104 (47.7%)

 Infected

144 (23.8%)

34 (15.6%)

 Unknown

114 (18.9%)

66 (30.3%)

 Refused

10 (1.7%)

14 (6.4%)

Barthell pre-admission function

  < 50

52 (8.6%)

20 (9.2%)

Mortality

 In-Patient

8 (1.3%)

34 (16%)

 3mo

18 (3.0%)

104 (48%)

 12mo

42 (7.0%)

122 (56%)