Table 1.

Characteristics of patients

Characteristics of subjects			Experimental (N = 78)	Control (N = 73)
Patients
	Age	(median, interquartile range)	7.5 (70.5 - 87.25)	82 (71–86)
	Sex	Female	45/78 (58) (47–69)	35/73 (48) (37–59)
	Main diagnosis
		Internal medicine, n/N (%) (I.C. %)	35/78 (45) (34–56)	25/73 (34) (23–45)
		Oncology, n/N (% )(I.C. %)	17/78 (22) (13–31)	20/73 (27) (17–37)
		Neurology, n/N (%) (I.C. %)	8/78 (10) (3 – 17)	5/73 (7) (1–13)
		Vascular, n/N (%) (I.C. %)	7/78 (9) (3–15)	4/73 (6) (1–11)
		Trauma, n/N (%) (I.C. %)	7/78 (9) (3–15)	11/73 (15) (7–23)
		Cardiology, n/N (%) (I.C. %)	2/78 (3) (1–7)	2/73 (3) (0–7)
		NS/NC, n/N (%) (I.C. %)	2/78 (3) (1–7)	6/73 (8) (2–14)
	Katz Index
		Severe Dependency, n/N (%) (I.C. %)	68/78 (87) (80–94)	59/73 (81) (72–90)
		Moderate Dependency, n/N (%) (I.C. %)	7/78 (9) (3–15)	11/73 (15) (4–18)
		No Dependency, n/N (%) (I.C. %)	3/78 (4) (0–8)	3/73 (4) (0–9)
	Previous Dependency
		Yes, n/N (%) (I.C. %)	56/78 (72) (62–82)	40/73 (55) (44–66)
		No, n/N (%) (I.C. %)	19/78 (24) (15–35)	28/73 (38) (27–49)
		DK/NA/ REF, n/N (%) (I.C. %)	3/78 (4) (0–8)	5/73 (7) (1–13)

%: percent.

I.C.: confidence interval.

N: sample size.