Paediatric palliative care referral by demographic and diagnostic characteristics
| Paediatric palliative care referral | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Characteristic | Total n (%) | Yes, n (%) | No, n (%) | p Value |
| Total | 494 (100) | 106 (21.5) | 388 (78.5) | |
| Gender | ||||
| Women | 242 (49.0) | 53 (50.0) | 189 (48.7) | 0.90 |
| Men | 252 (51.0) | 53 (50.0) | 199 (51.3) | |
| Age group | ||||
| 28 days–1 year | 152 (30.8) | 22 (20.8) | 130 (33.5) | 0.009 |
| 1–4 years | 104 (21.1) | 30 (28.3) | 74 (19.1) | |
| 5–9 years | 57 (11.5) | 18 (17.0) | 39 (10.1) | |
| 10–14 years | 76 (15.4) | 19 (17.9) | 57 (14.7) | |
| 15–18 years | 105 (21.3) | 17 (16.0) | 88 (22.7) | |
| Socioeconomic status (NZdep2006) | ||||
| Quintile 1 (least deprived) | 69 (16.0) | 14 (15.6) | 55 (16.1) | 0.642 |
| Quintile 2 | 83 (19.3) | 16 (17.8) | 67 (19.6) | |
| Quintile 3 | 64 (14.8) | 16 (17.8) | 48 (14.1) | |
| Quintile 4 | 87 (20.2) | 14 (15.6) | 73 (21.4) | |
| Quintile 5 (most deprived) | 128 (29.7) | 30 (33.3) | 98 (28.7) | |
| Ethnic group | ||||
| Asian | 33 (6.7) | 8 (7.5) | 25 (6.4) | 0.048 |
| European | 256 (51.8) | 52 (49.1) | 204 (52.6) | |
| MELAA | 4 (0.8) | 3 (2.8) | 1 (0.3) | |
| Maori | 139 (28.1) | 26 (24.5) | 113 (29.1) | |
| Other | 1 (0.2) | 1 (0.9) | 0 (0.0) | |
| Pacific peoples | 61 (12.3) | 16 (15.1) | 45 (11.6) | |
| Hospital death | ||||
| Yes | 265 (53.6) | 43 (40.6) | 222 (57.2) | 0.003 |
| No | 229 (46.3) | 63 (59.4) | 148 (38.1) | |
| Malignancy | ||||
| Yes | 145 (29.4) | 50 (47.2) | 95 (24.5) | <0.001 |
| No | 349 (70.6) | 56 (52.8) | 293 (75.5) | |
MELAA, Middle Eastern, Latin American, African.