Table 3. Comparison between community nurses' and GPs' responses for the type of consultation conducted.
| Please state whether your role in the following areas of palliative care has changed during the COVID-19 pandemica | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Community nurses | ±95% CI for (%) | GPs | ±95% CI for (%) | P valueb | |
| Total | |||||
| Home visits | 387 | 156 | |||
| Doing less or a lot lessc | 97 (44.5%) | 38.0 to 50.5 | 35 (28.9%) | 21.0 to 36.9 | <0.0001 |
| Stayed the samec | 36 (16.5%) | 11.5 to 21.5 | 66 (54.5%) | 45.1 to 63.2 | |
| Doing more or a lot morec | 85 (39.0%) | 32.6 to 45.9 | 20 (16.5%) | 10.2 to 23.5 | |
| Total | 218 | 121 | |||
| Telephone reviews | |||||
| Doing less or a lot lessc | 93 (37.2%) | 31.1 to 42.9 | 72 (50.7%) | 42.1 to 59.0 | P = 0.08 |
| Stayed the samec | 7 (2.8%) | 0.8 to 5.2 | 0 (0.0%) | – | |
| Doing more or a lot morec | 150 (60.0%) | 54.2 to 66.0 | 70 (49.3%) | 41.0 to 57.9 | |
| Total | 250 | 142 | |||
| Virtual consultations | |||||
| Doing less or a lot lessc | 34 (13.0%) | 9.0 to 17.6 | 42 (34.1%) | 25.8 to 43.0 | <0.0001 |
| Stayed the same | 9 (3.4%) | 1.5 to 5.6 | 2 (1.6%) | 0.0 to 4.3 | |
| Doing more or a lot morec | 218 (83.5%) | 78.8 to 88.1 | 79 (64.2%) | 55.2 to 72.6 | |
| Total | 261 | 123 | |||
| Face-to-face visits | |||||
| Doing less or a lot lessc | 38 (13.9%) | 10.0 to 18.2 | 53 (39.8%) | 31.8 to 48.0 | <0.0001 |
| Stayed the samec | 25 (9.1%) | 5.8 to 12.8 | 79 (59.4%) | 50.8 to 67.6 | |
| Doing more or a lot morec | 211 (77.0%) | 71.7 to 81.9 | 1 (0.8%) | 0.0 to 2.4 | |
| Total | 274 | 133 | |||
aThose who gave the responses, ‘not my role’ and missing responses were excluded from the analysis.bχ2 test. cPairwise Z-test with Bonferroni correction, significant at <0.05 level.