Table 7.

Emergency admissions, tracheostomy procedures and palliation in 2019 and 2020

Characteristic	Total (n (%))*	2019 (n (%))†	2020 (n (%))‡	P-value**	Odds ratio (95% CI)
Emergency hospital admissions	33 (6.3)	9 (3.6)	24 (8.6)	0.017	2.53 (1.15–5.55)
Emergency tracheostomy procedures	13 (2.5)	5 (2.0)	8 (2.9)	0.516	1.45 (0.47–4.50)
Palliation at presentation	185 (35)	87 (34.8)	98 (35.3)	0.913	1.02 (0.71–1.46)

*n = 528; ^†n = 250; ^‡n = 278; **chi-squared test of homogeneity. CI = confidence interval