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Table 3 Awareness of disease among patients and family with different disease category before and after PCCS

From: Trend analysis of palliative care consultation service for terminally ill non-cancer patients in Taiwan: a 9-year observational study

Characteristics

Heart failure

Other brain disease

Dementia

Chronic obstructive lung disease

Other disease of lung

Acute kidney injury

Chronic kidney disease

Chronic liver disease and cirrhosis

Motor neuron disease

p

 Patient’s awareness of disease before PCCS

46%

18%

20%

27%

31%

43%

44%

32%

67%

0.5703

 Family’s awareness of disease before PCCS

72%

65%

71%

79%

93%

68%

72%

65%

67%

0.004

 Patient’s awareness of disease after PCCS

69%

86%

40%

43%

64%

88%

82%

81%

100%

0.0251

 Family’s awareness of disease after PCCS

100%

99%

100%

100%

100%

100%

99%

100%

100%

0.9686