Table 6. Patient symptom presence and severity over the three days prior to Neno Palliative Care Program enrollment (N = 36).

Symptom	Present*		African POS¶
	n	%§	Mean Score (SE)•
Pain	31	86	3.3 (0.2)
Numbness	13	36	3.5 (0.4)
Cough	12	33	3.5 (0.4)
Difficulty sleeping	12	33	3.5 (0.3)
Shortness of breath	12	33	3.7 (0.4)
Nausea/vomiting	8	22	3.4 (0.5)
Constipation	8	22	2.8 (0.7)

*Present indicates score of >0 on the African Palliative Care Association African Palliative Outcome Scale.

^¶African POS = African Palliative Outcome Scale, which scores symptom severity in 1-point increments from 0 to 5 on a 6-point Likert scale. Harding R, Selman L, Agupio G, Dinat N, Downing J, et al. (2010) Validation of a core outcome measure for palliative care in Africa: the APCA African Palliative Outcome Scale. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 8∶10. doi:10.1186/1477-7525-8-10.

^§Percentages do not sum to 100% as more than one symptom was reported per patient.

^•SE = Standard error.