Table 7. Hospital care in the last days of life according to relatives (n = 175).
| Without PCT consultation n (%) |
With PCT consultation n(%) |
X2 | P value† | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Efforts to alleviate symptoms and problems last 3 days before death were sufficient | Yes | 51 (56) | 43 (61) | 3.89 | 0.422 |
| No | 7 (8) | 9 (13) | |||
| Partly | 20 (22) | 8 (11) | |||
| NA* | 10 (11) | 8 (11) | |||
| DK** | 3 (3) | 3 (4) | |||
| Missing | 7 | 6 | |||
| Efforts to alleviate symptoms and problems last 24 hours before death were sufficient | Yes | 62 (77) | 48 (71) | 0.53 | 0.913 |
| No | 9 (10) | 7 (10) | |||
| Partly | 13 (15) | 10 (15) | |||
| DK | 2 (2) | 3 (4) | |||
| Missing | 12 | 9 | |||
| Missing | 21 | ||||
| Social support the last 3 days before death was sufficient | Yes | 49 (54) | 32 (46) | 4.28 | 0.370 |
| No | 11 (12) | 15 (21) | |||
| Partly | 12 (13) | 13 (19) | |||
| NA | 11 (12) | 7 (10) | |||
| DK | 7 (8) | 3 (4) | |||
| Missing | 8 | 7 | |||
| Social support the last 24 hours before death was sufficient | Yes | 54 (61) | 43 (66) | 3.66 | 0.301 |
| No | 10 (11) | 10 (15) | |||
| Partly | 17 (19) | 11 (17) | |||
| DK | 7 (8) | 1 (2) | |||
| Missing | 10 | 12 | |||
| In the last days of life, patient participated sufficiently in decision making on medical treatment | Yes | 45 (52) | 34 (50) | 0.14 | 0.987 |
| No | 14 (16) | 10 (15) | |||
| Sometimes | 15 (17) | 13 (19) | |||
| DK | 14 (16) | 11 (16) | |||
| Missing | 10 | 9 | |||
| In the last days of life, relative participated sufficiently in decision making on medical treatment | Yes | 65 (74) | 47(67) | 0.97 | 0.614 |
| No | 17 (19) | 18 (26) | |||
| DK | 6 (7) | 5 (7) | |||
| Missing | 10 | 7 | |||
| Did the relative receive sufficient information in the last days before death? | Yes | 66 (73) | 51 (72) | 1.60 | 0.449 |
| Too much | 1(1) | 3 (4) | |||
| Too little | 23 (26) | 17 (24) | |||
| Missing | 8 | 6 | |||
| Information that was given to the relative was understandable | Yes | 71 (79) | 49 (68) | 2.71 | 0.439 |
| No | 1 (1) | 1 (1) | |||
| Partly | 12 (13) | 13 (18) | |||
| No info | 6 (7) | 9(13) | |||
| Missing | 8 | 5 | |||
| Relatives were informed about imminent death | Yes | 53 (58) | 46 (64) | 0.54 | 0.463 |
| No | 38 (42) | 26 (36) | |||
| Missing | 7 | 5 | |||
| Opportunity to discuss personal or religious preferences was sufficient | Yes | 46 (53) | 45 (64) | 6.536 | 0.038 |
| No | 15 (17) | 16 (23) | |||
| DK | 26 (30) | 9 (13) | |||
| Missing | 11 | 7 | |||
| Attention was paid to personal or religious preferences | Yes | 47 (51) | 40 (56) | 2.60 | 0.272 |
| No | 7 (8) | 10 (14) | |||
| DK | 35 (39) | 21 (29) | |||
| Missing | 9 | 6 | |||
| Attention to preferred rituals at the moment of death was sufficient | Yes | 40 (49) | 36 (58) | 3.67 | 0.159 |
| No | 8 (10) | 10 (16) | |||
| DK | 34 (41) | 17 (27) | |||
| Missing | |||||
| Missing | 30 | ||||
| Affirmation of the patient as a whole person was sufficient | Yes | 56 (61) | 40 (58) | 2.02 | 0.568 |
| No | 8 (9) | 6 (9) | |||
| Partly | 19 (12) | 12 (17) | |||
| DK | 8 (9) | 11 (16) | |||
| Missing | 7 | 8 | |||
| Attention to wishes of patient and relatives in the days before death was sufficient | Yes | 63 (70) | 55 (77) | 2.30 | 0.513 |
| No | 7 (8) | 6 (9) | |||
| Partly | 11 (12) | 7 (10) | |||
| DK | 9 (10) | 3 (4) | |||
| Missing | 8 | 6 | |||
† P-values were calculated using the Holm-Bonferroni method
*NA = Not applicable
** Don’t know