Early identification of patients in need of palliative care in slovenian general practice

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Proportions of reactive and anticipatory palliative care plans_

	Vignette A		Vignette B		Vignette C		Vignette D		Total
	R	A	R	A	R	A	R	A	R	A
Group 1 (n=8)	88%	38%	100%	50%	88%	25%	63%	63%	84%	44%
Group 2 (n=8)	100%	50%	100%	50%	100%	25%	100%	38%	100%	41%
Group 3 (n=5)	80%	80%	100%	40%	100%	20%	80%	40%	90%	45%
Group 4 (n=5)	100%	40%	100%	80%	100%	40%	80%	40%	95%	50%
Total (n = 26)	92%	50%	100%	54%	96%	27%	81%	46%	-	-

Multidimensional care_

	Somatic	Social / financial	Care giving /ADL ADL: activities of daily living	Existential /psychological	All domains
Group 1	84%	9%	38%	16%	9%
Group 2	94%	25%	59%	31%	6%
Group 3	75%	5%	25%	20%	5%
Group 4	95%	10%	55%	15%	0%
Vignette A	89%	8%	54%	4%
Vignette B	100%	19%	54%	35%
Vignette C	96%	15%	65%	8%
Vignette D	65%	12%	8%	35%

Answer combinations to SQ1+SQ2 and mean RADIANT scores per case vignette_

	Group 2 (n=8)		Group 3 (n=5)		Group 4 (n=5)
	Answer SQ1	RADIANT score	Q1+SQ2	RADIANT score	Answers SQ1+SQ2	RADIANT score
Vignette A	No (n=8)	3.63	No+Yes (n=2)	3.5	No+Yes (n=1)	4.0
			No+No (n=2)	1.0	No+No (n=3)	3.7
			Yes+No (n=1)	0	Yes+No (n=1)	2.0
Vignette B	No (n=8)	4.0	No+Yes (n=5)	3.0	No+Yes (n=5)	4.0
			No+No (n=0)	-	No+No (n=0)	-
			Yes+No (n=0)	-	Yes+No (n=0)	-
Vignette C	No (n=8)	3.3	No+Yes (n=0)	-	No+Yes (n=1)	3.0
			No+No (n=4)	2.0	No+No (n=3)	2.7
			Yes+No (n=1)	3.0	Yes+No (n=1)	2.0
Vignette D	No (n=8)	3.4	No+Yes (n=2)	3.0	No+Yes (n=1)	5.0
			No+No (n=1)	2.0	No+No (n=4)	1.8
			Yes+No (n=2)	3.0	Yes+No (n=0)	-

Characteristics of participants_

Age (years±SD)	48±10.4
Gender: male	36%
Vocational training	96%
Function
• Employee in Healthcare Center	56%
• Independent contract holder	20%
• Employee in practice of independent contract holder	20%
• Other	4%
Type of practice
• Practice in healthcare center	56%
• Solo practice	32%
• Nursing home	8%
• Other	4%
Teaching practice	64%
Workload (hours per week ±SD)	37±11.0
After hours work (hours per month ±SD)	20±13.7
Consultation time (minutes per patient ±SD)	9.5±4.9
Home visits (no. per week ±SD)	0.9±1.0
Interest in palliative care (scale 1-10 ±SD)	8.4±1.1
Palliative care skills ( scale 1-10 ±SD)	6.3±1.6
Plans to improve PC skills	93%

Mean RADIANT scoresRADIANT score: RADboudANTicipatory score, a scoring method to quantify the open text content of palliative care plans made by GPs_ per case vignette in groups 1-4_

						Total
	Vignette A	Vignette B	Vignette C	Vignette D	A	E	S
Group 1 (n=8)	1.9	3.3	2.0	1.5	2.2	1.7 (n=3)	2.5 (n=5)
Group 2 (n=8)	3.6	4.0	3.3	3.4	3.6	3.5 (n=4)	3.6 (n=4)
Group 3 (n=5)	1.8	3.0	2.2	2.8	2.5	2.0 (n=4)	4.3 (n=1)
Group 4 (n=5)	3.4	4.0	2.6	2.4	3.1	2.8 (n=4)	4.3 (n=1)
Total (n = 26)	2.7	3.6	2.5	2.5	-	-	-