Research Article
Concordance between Experiences of Bereaved Relatives, Physicians, and Nurses with Hospital End-of-Life Care: Everyone Has Their “Own Truth”
Table 4
Awareness of impending death (
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| | | Physicians
(%) | Nurses
(%) | Relatives
(%) |
| | Awareness of impending death | | | | | Yes | 154 (77) | 145 (73) | 95 (48) | | More or less | 27 (14) | 22 (11) | 40 (20) | | No | 16 (8) | 30 (15) | 57 (29) | | Missing values | 3 (1) | 3 (1) | 8 (3) | | Correlation Rho () | | | | | P-Na | 0.20 (0.004) | | | | N-R | 0.26 (<0.001) | | | | P-R | 0.10 (0.17) | | | | Moment of awareness of impending death | | | | | <24 hrs | 77 (38) | 82 (41) | 58 (29) | | 24–72 hrs | 65 (32) | 59 (30) | 46 (23) | | >72 hrs | 42 (21) | 38 (19) | 31 (16) | | Missing values | 16 (9) | 21 (10) | 64 (32) | | Correlation Rho () | | | | | P-Na | 0.41 (<0.001) | | | | N-R | −0.26 (0.001) | | | | P-R | −0.25 (0.003) | | |
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Rho = Spearman’s correlation coefficient.
aP-N = physician and nurse; N-R = nurse and relative; P-R = physician and relative.
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