Table 1.
Sample characteristics
| Group | A = total group | B = “pall. Care only” group | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of patients | n = 2151 | n = 784 | |||
| Variable | n; mean | %; SD | n; mean | %; SD | |
| Location | BBM | 1555 | 72.3% | 659 | 84.1% |
| LMU | 596 | 27.7% | 125 | 15.9% | |
| Year | 2012 | 1070 | 49.7% | ||
| 2013 | 1081 | 50.3% | 784 | 100% | |
| Gender | male | 1031 | 47.9% | 350 | 44.6% |
| female | 1120 | 52.1% | 434 | 55.9% | |
| MDC | respiratory system | 331 | 15.4% | 99 | 12.6% |
| hepatobiliary system and pancreas | 309 | 14.4% | 123 | 15.7% | |
| digestive system | 296 | 13.8% | 127 | 12.2% | |
| nervous system | 288 | 13.4% | 91 | 11.6% | |
| other | 262 | 12.2% | 116 | 14.8% | |
| skin, subcutaneous tissue & breast | 191 | 8.9% | 60 | 7.7% | |
| kidney and urinary tract | 126 | 5.9% | 42 | 5.4% | |
| female reproductive system | 120 | 5.6% | 35 | 4.5% | |
| poorly differentiated neoplasms | 119 | 5.5% | 43 | 5.5% | |
| male reproductive system | 109 | 5.1% | 48 | 6.1% | |
| Discharge | death | 1299 | 60.4% | 455 | 58% |
| home | 590 | 27.4% | 237 | 30.2% | |
| hospice | 159 | 7.4% | 55 | 7.0% | |
| nursing home | 55 | 2.6% | 25 | 3.2% | |
| other hospital | 30 | 1.4% | 6 | 0.8% | |
| other | 18 | 0.8% | 6 | 0.8% | |
| Cancer | yes | 1497 | 69.6% | 549 | 70% |
| no | 654 | 30.4% | 235 | 30% | |
| Kind of suppl. Fee for SPC | palliative care ≤6 days (=no fee) | 732 | 34.0% | 240 | 30.6% |
| palliative care 7–13 days | 797 | 37.1% | 313 | 39.9% | |
| palliative care 14–20 days | 466 | 21.7% | 181 | 23.1% | |
| palliative care ≥21 days | 156 | 7.3% | 50 | 6.4% | |
| age (years) | 69.8 | 12.37 | 70.7 | 11.8 | |
| length of stay (days) | 12.2 | 10.10 | 9.8 | 6.3 | |
| number of secondary diagnoses | 14.3 | 6.50 | 14.3 | 5.8 | |
| number of operation/procedure codes | 4.7 | 5.28 | 3.3 | 1.7 | |
BBM (Hospital Barmherzige Brüder München), LMU (University Hospital Munich), MDC (main Diagnostic Category)