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Table 3 Descriptive statistics for prognostic communication codes in equivocal discussions

From: Oncologist approaches to communicating uncertain disease status in pediatric cancer: a qualitative study

Code Name

Code Frequency

Code Time

No. of codes across all equivocal recordings

Median (range) of codes per recording

No. (%) recordings including at least 1 code

Total time of coded dialogue across all recordings

Median (range) of time coded per recording

% of coded time (time for each code per total prognostic communication time)

Coverage (time for each code per total dialogue time)

Prognostic uncertainty

35

0 (0–6)

19/40 (47.5%)

6 min 23 s

0 Sect. (0 s-2 min 2 s)

~ 46%

1.3%

Disease changing for the worse

35

0 (0–5)

17/40 (42.5%)

5 min 48 s

0 Sects. (0–47 s)

~ 42%

1.1%

Best- and worst-case scenarios

4

0 (0–1)

4/40 (10%)

54 s

0 Sects. (0-18.5 s)

~ 6%

0.2%

Assessing prognostic understanding

4

0 (0–3)

2/40 (5%)

16 s

0 Sects. (0-8.8 s)

~ 2%

0.1%

Curability

2

0 (0–1)

2/40 (5%)

46 s

0 Sects. (0-33.9 s)

~ 5%

0.2%

Survival time

0

0 (0)

0/40 (0%)

0 s

0 Sect. (0 s)

0%

0%

Total

80

1 (0–13)

23/40 (57.5%)

13 min 45 s

0 Sect. (0 s-2 min 36 s)

100.0%

2.9%

  1. Total recorded time: 8 h, 29 min, 45 s