Table A2: Characteristics of the Patients in the Included Studies*.
| Smoking Status | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Sample Size | Mean Age (SD), years | % Male | Current, % | Ex, % | Non, % | Pack-Years, Mean (SD) | Home Oxygen Use, % | Support at Home, %† | ||||||||||
| Author, Year | HaH | H | HaH | H | HaH | H | HaH | H | HaH | H | HaH | H | HaH | H | HaH | H | HaH | H |
| Cotton et al, 2000 (21) | 41 | 40 | 66 (1.6) | 68 (1.2) | 46 | 40 | NR | NR | NR | NR | NR | NR | NR | NR | 20 | 13 | 73 | 67 |
| Davies et al, 2000 (20) | 100 | 50 | 70 (8) | 70 (8) | 45 | 60 | 34 | 38 | 60 | 60 | 6 | 2 | 41 (31) | 43 (24) | NR | NR | 69‡ | |
| Ojoo et al, 2002 (22) | 30 | 30 | 70 | 70 | 53 | 50 | NR | NR | NR | NR | NR | NR | NR | NR | NR | NR | § | § |
| Aimonino Ricauda et al, 2008 (19) | 52 | 52 | 80 (3.2) | 79 (3.1) | 56 | 75 | 13 | 11 | 65 | 67 | 21 | 21 | 20 (7)║ | 21 (15)║ | 35 | 23 | 100 | 100 |
| Shepperd et al, 1998 (15;18) | 15 | 17 | 71 (7.2) | 73 (10.1) | 33 | 18 | NR | NR | NR | NR | NR | NR | NR | NR | NR | NR | NR | NR |
| Skwarska et al, 2000 (6) | 122 | 62 | 69 (range, 39−84) | 70 (range, 51−86) | 52 | 39 | 41 | 38 | 58 | 60 | NR | NR | NR | NR | 7 | 6 | 74¶ | 61¶ |
Abbreviations: Ex, indicates ex-smokers; H, inhospital care; HaH, hospital-at-home care; non, nonsmokers; SD, standard deviation.
Support at home is defined as participants who do not live alone.
Results were not reported separately for the hospital-at-home and inpatient hospital groups.
Based on reported categories, it was not possible to determine how many patients had support at home given potentially overlapping reported categories.
Mean number cigarettes smoked per day ± SD.
The reported baseline characteristics include a category about home help. However, inadequate information is provided in the reported results to determine which categories should be included in support at home. Thus, it is possible that some of the individuals who live alone may nevertheless receive help and therefore should have been categorized as support at home.