Non-specialist palliative care - question prompt list preparation 169 Supplement 3 Table. Characteristics of the n=32 patients whose consultation was audiotaped Patient characteristicsa Age, median (range) 65 (46-80) Sex, male, n (%) 17 (53) Patient primary disease diagnosis, n (%) Oncological 31 (97) Kidney failure 1 (3) Median survival, months (IQ-range) 6 (3-51) a 25 patients had used the question prompt list; 7 had not. Supplement 4 Leiden Guide on Palliative Care 2018 To improve comprehensibility, the wording of the Leiden Guide on Palliative Care was simplified and the lay-out was adapted according to participants’ suggestions (Table 4). Questions were added and placed next to a topic so that each topic is accompanied by at least one question. The final version comprised nine categories with 43 topics and 133 questions (Supplement 6). In addition, we wrote an instruction leaflet for healthcare providers to facilitate the use of the QPL and to optimize palliative care consultations (Supplement 7). 7
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