Table III.

Associations between a successful palliative course and model variables. A total of 153 cases were included in the analyses. The unadjusted and the adjusted prevalence ratios (PRs) are shown with 95% confidence intervals (95% CIs).

	Unadjusted		Adjusted
	Prevalence ratio (95% CI)	p-value	Prevalence ratio (95% CI)	p-value
Gender of relative
Male	1		1
Female	1.08 (0.83;1.41)	0.559	1.03 (0.72;1.47)	0.882
Age of relative
18 – 64	1		1
65 +	1.29 (1.06;1.58)	0.013	1.00 (0.76;1.32)	0.988
Relative living with patient
No	1		1
Yes	1.88 (1.16; 3.06)	0.011	1.75 (0.87;3.53)	0.119
Relative's relation to diseased
Not spouse	1		Not included because of collinarity with ‘Relative living with patient’
Spouse	1.59 (1.15;2.19)	0.005
Relative's vocational education
3 years or less	1		1
> 3 years	0.80 (0.62:1.04)	0.102	0.88 (0.65;1.18)	0.397
GP knowledge prior to palliative period
Poor	1		1
Well	1.41 (0.82;2.42)	0.211	1.24 (0.74;2.08)	0.405
GP home-visits
No	1		1
Yes	1.11 (0.61;1.92)	0.719	0.97 (0.44;2.26)	0.951
Unplanned home-visits by GP
No	1		1
Yes	1.14 (0.87;1.49)	0.335	1.18 (0.89;1.57)	0.238
GP gave private number to patient to use in out-of-office hours
No	1		1
Yes	1.03 (0.80;1.33)	0.800	0.83 (0.62;1.11)	0.205
GP had made a plan with the patient for whom to contact in out-of-office hours
No	1		1
Yes	0.96 (0.71;1.28)	0.767	0.98 (0.66;1.44)	0.917
GP had contact with relatives
No	1		1
Yes	1.15 (0.55;2.39)	0.712	1.69 (0.55;5.19)	0.360
Community nurse involvement
No	1		1
Yes	0.92 (0.72;1.16)	0.470	0.89 (0.61;1.29)	0.524
Specialist team-involvement
No	1		1
Yes	1.01 (0.81;1.26)	0.917	1.04 (0.78;1.37)	0.808
Place of death
Institution (hospital or hospice)	1		1
Nursing home	0.89 (0.55;1.45)	0.636	1.03 (0.53;1.98)	0.940
Home	1.37 (1.05:1.80)	0.021	1.48 (1.04:2.12)	0.031

Note: Significant correlations with a p-value < 0.05 are in bold text.