Table 3 Treatment and aggressiveness of care in the audit period
All Patients | Treatment within last 30 days | No treatment within last 30 days | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Number | Percent | Number | Percent | Number | Percent | |
Last treatment type | ||||||
Chemotherapy | 243 | 66 | 27% | 177 | 73% | |
Targeted/biologic | 47 | 20 | 43% | 27 | 57% | |
Endocrine/hormonal | 53 | 25 | 47% | 28 | 53% | |
Immunotherapy | 30 | 14 | 47% | 16 | 53% | |
Treatment intent | ||||||
Curative | 19 | 4% | 5 | 4% | 14 | 4% |
Palliative | 421 | 96% | 115 | 96% | 306 | 96% |
Parameters for aggressiveness of care | ||||||
Palliative care referral | 272 | 65% | 67 | 58% | 205 | 67% |
Palliative care referral beyond last 30 days | 178 | 42% | 32 | 28% | 146 | 48% |
More than one emergency presentations | 43 | 10% | 21 | 18% | 22 | 7% |
More than one hospitalisation | 49 | 12% | 20 | 17% | 29 | 9% |
Hospitalisation 14 or more days | 60 | 14% | 13 | 11% | 47 | 15% |
ICU admission | 16 | 4% | 7 | 6% | 9 | 3% |