Comorbidities in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients with and without palliative care needs (PCNs) and frequency of PCNs in these diagnostic groups
| Patients with PCNs | Patients without PCNs | p-value | Proportion of patients with PCNs relative to all patients of the diagnostic group % | |
| Subjects | 132 | 1323 | ||
| Malignant neoplasm | 68 (51.5) | 470 (35.5) | <0.001 | 12.6 |
| Metastases | 44 (33.3) | 171 (12.9) | <0.001 | 20.5 |
| Bronchial carcinoma | 29 (22.0) | 245 (18.5) | 0.334 | 10.6 |
| Coronary heart disease | 33 (25.0) | 347 (26.2) | 0.759 | 8.7 |
| Chronic heart failure | 18 (13.6) | 142 (10.7) | 0.309 | 11.3 |
| Diabetes mellitus | 15 (11.4) | 175 (13.2) | 0.544 | 7.9 |
| Chronic renal failure | 11 (8.3) | 156 (11.8) | 0.235 | 6.6 |
| Acute renal failure | 8 (6.1) | 39 (2.9) | 0.054 | 17.0 |
| Liver cirrhosis | 5 (3.8) | 29 (2.2) | 0.247 | 14.7 |
| Depression | 7 (5.3) | 25 (1.9) | 0.011 | 21.9 |
| Dementia | 4 (3.0) | 16 (1.2) | 0.087 | 20.0 |
Data are presented as n or n (%), unless otherwise stated. Note that the percentages in the first two columns do not equal 100%, as diagnostic groups are not disjunctive.