Who Receives Home-Based Perinatal Palliative Care: Experience from Poland

Table 1

Diagnoses spanned a wide spectrum of patients’ diseases and patients’ characteristics.

Patients’ groups according to diagnoses	N (%)	Age of admission in days median; (25–75 percentile)	Deaths		Discharges		Patients remaining under hospice care on December 31, 2011.
			N	Age of death in days median; (25–75 percentile)	N	Duration of care in days median; (25–75 percentile)	N	Duration of care in days median; (25–75 percentile)
Total	53 (100)	128 (62–219,5)	16	248 (138–528)	20	125,5 (70,5–187,3)	17	264 (161–833,5)
Congenital malformations, deformations, and chromosomal abnormalities	22 (41)	82 (38,5–191,8)	9	150,5 (110,3–242,8)	6	218 (104,3–404,5)	7	264 (170–549)
Certain conditions originating in the perinatal period	14 (26)	139 (119,3–204,5)	2	700,0405,0	10	111 (58,75–144,3)	2	52 (52–52)
Diseases of the nervous system	11 (21)	91 (55–314)	2	762 (637–887)	4	157,5 (41–186,3)	5	814 (226,5–1346)
Metabolic diseases	6 (12)	187 (139,8–249)	3	283 (65–528)	—	—	3	344 (23–1921)