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- Percent of virtual visits during COVID-19 period.
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Characteristic Descriptive statistics Age, years; median (range) 68 (18-108) Gender Female 79 (47.3) Male 88 (52.7) Marital status Married 132 (79.0) Other 35 (21.0) Area of residency Western region 152 (91.0) Other 15 (9.0) Code status Full code 80 (47.9) Support care 53 (31.7) Comfort care 34 (20.4) Diagnosis Cancer 165 (98.8) Non-cancer 2 (1.2) Palliative / follow-up patients Palliative patient 46 (27.5) Follow-up patient 121 (72.5) Number of visits; median (range) 2 (1-10) Number of admissions; median (range) 1 (0-9) No admission 65 (38.9) One admission or more 102 (61.1) Number of ER visits, median (range) 1 (0-21) No ER visit 62 (37.1) One or more ER visit 105 (62.9) Specialty Medical oncology service 72 (43.1) Gynae-oncology 17 (10.2) Hematology 19 (11.4) Radiation 28 (16.8) Non-oncology service 31 (18.6) Values are presented as number and percentages (%).
- Table 2
- Acute respiratory illness score and type of visits recorded during seven months of COVID-19 period in the palliative center.
Characteristics Descriptive statistics ARI score, median (range) 0 (0–12) ARI score 0 332 (74.3) 1-3 92 (20.6) >3 23 (5.1) Type of visit Virtual visit 234 (52.3) Non-virtual visit 213 (47.7) Show up 90 (42.2) Walk-in, inpatient, or other 123 (57.8) Total is computed over the study period (N=447). Values are presented as number and percentage (%) unless otherwise stated. ARI: acute respiratory illness
- Table 3
- Comparison of patients’ characteristics and clinical variables between types of visit groups.
Characteristics Type of visit P-value At least one virtual visit (N=124) No virtual visit (N=43) Age, years; median (range) 68 (18-108) 66 (36-88) 0.74* Gender Female 55 (69.6) 24 (30.4) 0.20† Male 69 (78.4) 19 (21.6) Marital status Married 99 (75) 33 (25) 0.67† Other 25 (71.4) 10 (28.6) Area of residency Western region 112 (73.7) 40 (26.3) 0.76† Other 12 (80) 3 (20) Code status Full code 67 (83.8) 13 (16.3) <0.001† Support care 41 (77.4) 12 (22.6) Comfort care 16 (47.1) 18 (52.9) Diagnosis Cancer 123 (74.5) 42 (25.5) 0.45‡ Non-cancer 1 (50) 1 (50) Palliative / follow-up patients Palliative Patient 29 (63) 17 (37) 0.041† Follow-up Patient 95 (78.5) 26 (21.5) Number of visits, median (range) 3 (1-10) 1 (1-6) <0.00* Number of admissions No admission 56 (86.2) 9 (13.8) 0.005† One admission or more 68 (66.7) 34 (33.3) Number of ER visits No ER visit 52 (83.9) 10 (16.1) 0.029† One or more ER visit 72 (68.6) 33 (31.4) Specialty Medical oncology service 55 (76.4) 17 (23.6) 0.17‡ Gyne-oncology 11 (64.7) 6 (35.3) Hematology 17 (89.5) 2 (10.5) Radiation 22 (78.6) 6 (21.4) Non-oncology service 19 (61.3) 12 (38.7) Values are presented as number and percentage (%) unless otherwise stated. *Mann-Whitney U test for independent samples. †Pearson’s Chi-square test, ‡Fisher’s exact test
- Table 4
- Multiple logistic regression analysis for variables associated with the type of visit.
Characteristics OR 95% CI P-value Code status Support care 1.3 0.5–3.2 0.60 Comfort care 6.0 2.3–14.9 <0.001 Number of visits 0.6 0.5-0.9 0.001 OR: odd ratio, CI: confidence interval
- Table 5
- Comparison of number of admissions and number of ER visits by code status over the study period.
Characteristics Code status P-value Full code Support code Comfort code Admission None 45 (69.2) 12 (18.5) 8 (12.3) <0.001 One or more admissions 35 (34.3) 41 (40.2) 26 (25.5) ER visits None 38 (61.3) 13 (21) 11 (17.7) 0.022* One or more 42 (40) 40 (38.1) 23 (21.9) Values are presented as number and percentage (%). Admission and emergency room (ER) visits over the study period. Only significant comparisons are presented. *Pearson’s Chi-square test
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