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. 2014 Mar 8;13:7. doi: 10.1186/1472-684X-13-7

Table 4.

Patients prescribed corticosteroids in the sample hospices

Facility
Number (%) of patients at each hospice prescribed at least one course of corticosteroids
Number of patients
Hospice 1
 
297
204 (68.7%)
Hospice 2
 
235
144 (61.3%)
Hospice 3
 
175
120 (68.6%)
Hospice 4
 
111
71 (64.0%)
Hospice 5
 
142
94 (66.2%)
Hospice 6
 
219
135 (61.6%)
Total
 
1179 768 Mean (s.d.): 65.1% (3.3%)