Table 4.
Palliative Care Interventions Delivered to Advanced Cancer Patients at a Public Hospital and at a Comprehensive Cancer center
| No. of patients (%) | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH | CCC | ||||||||
| Covariate | Inpatient (n = 90) | pa | Outpatient (n = 92) | Total (n = 182) | pc | Total (n = 182) | Inpatient (n = 90) | P valueb | Outpatient (n = 92) |
| Pain management | |||||||||
| Opioid started | 30 (42) | 0.415 | 22 (55) | 52 (47) | 0.8416 | 54 (42) | 26 (39) | 0.0478 | 28 (53) |
| Opioid rotation | 12 (17) | 6 (15) | 18 (16) | 23 (18) | 18 (27) | 5 (9) | |||
| Opioid adjusted | 29 (41) | 12 (30) | 41 (37) | 43 (40) | 23 (34) | 20 (38) | |||
| Started | |||||||||
| Bowel regimen | 47 (52) | <0.0001 | 17 (19) | 64 (35) | 0.6340 | 68 (38) | 26 (29) | 0.0224 | 42 (46) |
| Antiemetics | 29 (32) | <0.0001 | 6 (7) | 35 (19) | 0.2811 | 43 (24) | 21 (24) | 0.9273 | 22 (24) |
| Steroids | 10 (11) | 0.0470 | 3 (3) | 13 (7) | 0.5181 | 10 (5) | 6 (7) | 0.5338 | 4 (4) |
| Changed | |||||||||
| Bowel regimen | 15 (17) | 0.0609 | 7 (8) | 22 (12) | 0.4953 | 26 (15) | 19 (22) | 0.0083 | 7 (8) |
| Antiemetics | 8 (9) | 0.1306 | 3 (3) | 11 (6) | 0.4873 | 8 (4) | 6 (7) | 0.1642 | 2 (2) |
a
Inpatients versus outpatients at the PH.
b
Inpatients versus outpatients at the CCC.
c
Total PH versus CCC.
Bold p-values are significant values only.