Communication of palliative care needs in discharge letters from hospice providers to primary care: a multisite sequential explanatory mixed methods study

Table 2 The 25 most frequent content words in the discharge letter corpus (lemmatised)

Rank	Hits	Content word	Word form(s)
1	970	patient	patient 967 patients 3
2	857	care	care 831 cared 16 cares 2 caring 8
3	774	home	home 770 homes 4
4	712	pain	pain 705 pains 7
5	688	admission	admission 664 admissions 24
6	546	place	place 538 placed 6 places 2
7	534	hospice	hospice 534
8	508	discharge	discharge 386 discharged 117 discharges 2 discharging 3
9	451	prefer	prefer 15 preferred 428 preferring 1 prefers 7
10	421	during	during 421
11	383	plan	plan 106 planned 23 planning 97 plans 157
12	338	follow	follow 183 followed 35 following 119 follows 1
13	331	day	day 241 days 90
14	274	problem	problem 15 problems 259
15	274	symptom	symptom 129 symptoms 145
16	267	feel	feel 50 feeling 31 feelings 4 feels 51 felt 131
17	267	time	time 168 times 98 timing 1
18	261	team	team 252 teams 9
19	250	dose	dose 206 doses 43 dosing 1
20	242	community	community 242
21	242	due	due 242
22	242	use	use 84 used 48 uses 37 using 73
23	228	family	families 1 family 227
24	227	increase	increase 51 increased 123 increases 2 increasing 51
25	226	death	death 226

ISSN: 1472-684X