Table 5.
Morphine
Question – Appropriate response | Nursing N=18 | Allied health N=48 | Medical N=260 | P value | Total N=326 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Causes death in all dying patients - No | 12(66.7) | 29(60.4) | 182(70) | 0.417 | 223(67.8) |
Improves quality of life -Yes | 5(27.8) | 29(60.4) | 181(69.6) | 0.001 | 215(66) |
Relieves all kinds of pain - No | 2(11.1) | 13(27.1) | 62(23.8) | 0.389 | 77(23.6) |
Relieves breathlessness in heart failure -Yes | 6(33.3) | 22(45.8) | 73(28.1) | 0.049 | 101(31) |
Figures in parenthesis are in percentage