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Palliative day-care clinics, however, are not. Studies assessing which patients benefit from this setting of care are rare.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Aim:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>This is the first routine data analysis of patients treated in three settings of specialised palliative care within a single geographical region. Our aim was to gain understanding of how patients in this region, where specialised palliative care structures are well-established, differ in their characteristics and treatments, and to explore the potential role of a palliative day-care clinic.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Design:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      Retrospective data were extracted from medical records and analysed using SPSS\n                      <jats:sup>\u00ae<\/jats:sup>\n                      and R\n                      <jats:sup>\u00ae<\/jats:sup>\n                      . Data were analysed using the Shapiro-Wilk, Chi-Square, and Kruskal-Wallis tests. Setting\/Participants: Patients (n\u2009=\u2009603) were included if they received treatment at either a palliative day-care clinic, a palliative care unit, or a specialised palliative home care service. To cover the \u201cnormal\u201d pre-pandemic period, the analysis was conducted retrospectively from 31 December 2019.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      Patients attending the palliative day-care clinic were more likely to have cancer (90%,\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">P<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u2009&lt;\u2009.001), were younger than those receiving specialised palliative home care (66.1,\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">P<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u2009&lt;\u2009.001), had a better ECOG performance status (2,\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">P<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u2009&lt;\u2009.001) and fewer high-complexity symptom domains (3.4,\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">P<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u2009&lt;\u2009.001). Patients in the palliative day-care clinic and the palliative care unit underwent similar numbers of medical procedures and interventions. The majority of patients were admitted to the palliative day-care clinic from home (76%,\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">P<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u2009&lt;\u2009.001) and discharged to the palliative care unit (41.5%,\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">P<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u2009&lt;\u2009.001).\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The three care models differ in their patient populations, time-based criteria and symptom burden\u2014with the palliative day-care clinic treating younger patients at earlier stages of the disease, with a lower ECOG score and a less complex symptom burden. 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