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Table 2 Functional and cognitive state, co-morbidity and treatment (n = 698)

From: Patients attended by palliative care teams: are they always comparable populations?

 

TOTAL

ARAGON

CATALONIA

p-valueb

 

(n = 698)

(n = 392)

(n = 306)

 

KARNOFSKYa

51.8 ± 14

48.8 ± 15

55.7 ± 13

< 0.001

ECOGa

2.5 ± 1

2.7 ± 1

2.2 ± 1

< 0.001

BARTHELa

56.2 ± 33

49.5 ± 34

64.9 ± 30

< 0.001

PFEIFFERa

2.6 ± 4

2.9 ± 4

2.1 ± 4

0.094

CHARLSONa

5.8 ± 2

5.9 ± 2

5.6 ± 2

0.020

Corticosteroids (%)

37.5

29.8

47.4

< 0.001

SC Butterfly needle (%)

8.3

9.9

6.2

0.076

  1. SC: Subcutaneous. a: mean ± standard deviation. b: Comparison between groups; p determined by the χ2 test for Comparison of proportions or Mann–Whitney test for continuous variables.
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