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Table 2 Prognosis of survival and estimation of the patient’s quality of life

From: Physicians’ attitudes toward medical and ethical challenges for patients in the vegetative state: comparing Canadian and German perspectives in a vignette survey

 

No. (%)

 

All

Canadian

German

pvalue

Groups (n = 332)

group (n = 200)

group (n = 132)

Prognosis of survival (n = 329)

p = 0.049

None (0%)

1 (0.3)

1 (1)

-

 

Minimal (<10%)

7 (2)

5 (3)

2 (2)

 

Very small (10-25%)

18 (6)

9 (5)

9 (7)

 

Small (26-50%)

42 (13)

24 (12)

18 (14)

 

Good (51-75%)

122 (37)

67 (34)

55 (42)

 

Very good (76-90%)

95 (29)

57 (29)

38 (29)

 

Excellent (>91%)

30 (9)

27 (14)

3 (2)

 

Certain (100%)

2 (1)

-

2 (2)

 

Not able to rate

12 (4)

8 (4)

4 (3)

 

Estimation of the patients quality of life (QoL) (n = 327)

p < 0.001

No QoL

109 (33)

91 (46)

18 (14)

 

Extremely low (0)

91 (28)

58 (29)

33 (25)

 

1

46 (14)

28 (14)

18 (14)

 

2

30 (9)

11 (6)

19 (15)

 

3

5 (2)

2 (1)

3 (2)

 

4

2 (1)

-

2 (2)

 

>4

-

-

-

 

Not able to rate

44 (14)

7 (4)

37 (29)

 
  1. QoL = Quality of life.