Palliative sedation for children at end of life: a retrospective cohort study

BMC Palliative Care

Table 2 Types and relief of symptoms in Groups A and B

	n	Type of symptom (s)					Symptom control			Pain control
	n	1	2	3	4	n	No remission	Partial remission	Complete remission	n	No remission	Mild remission	Moderate remissions	Obvious remission
Group A	24	3	7	10	4	24	0	20	4	21^b	1^c	2	16	2
Group B	17	10	3	4	0	15^a	5	8	2	7^b	0	2	4	1
Z		–					2.045				0.367
p	0.013^d						0.041^e				0.714 ^e

^aTwo cases of only coma excluded from the 17 cases were not included in the assessment
^bThere was no analgesia for 3 patients in Group A and 10 patients in Group B
^cHospital stay was too short to evaluate
^dThe exact probability method
^eRank sum test

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