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

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Table 4 Palliative care team activity (n = 698)

	TOTAL	ARAGON	CATALONIA	p-value^b
	(n = 698)	(n = 392)	(n = 306)
Point of origin				0.002
Primary care	55.0	56.6	52.9
Oncology	22.6	25.0	19.6
Other departments	13.3	11.2	16.0
PCU	4.6	2.0	7.8
No. of visits^a	7 ± 4	5 ± 3	8 ± 5	< 0.001
Duration on programme^a (days)	65 ± 64	51 ± 55	77 ± 68	< 0.001
Situation (%)				< 0.001
Death	74.4	72.4	76.8
Off programme	16.9	22.4	9.8
Alive	8.7	5.1	6.2

^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.