Table 2

Prevalence of patient experienced symptoms over prior 24 hours as rated by patients themselves, GPs and district nurses.

		% reporting symptom

	n^a	Patients	Health professionals	P-value for difference^b
Patient–GP
Pain	68	76.5	85.3	0.15
Nausea	67	28.4	64.2	<0.001
Vomiting	69	5.8	36.2	<0.001
Constipation	62	27.4	53.2	0.002
Fatigue	68	86.8	94.1	0.13
Breathlessness	67	62.7	74.6	0.13
Anxiety	67	59.7	85.1	0.001
Depression	67	62.7	80.6	0.01

Patient–district nurse
Pain	52	73.1	82.7	0.13
Nausea	50	42.0	48.0	0.61
Vomiting	49	20.4	28.6	0.42
Constipation	50	26.0	46.0	0.03
Fatigue	51	92.2	96.1	0.69
Breathlessness	51	60.8	66.7	0.58
Anxiety	48	52.1	93.8	<0.001
Depression	49	55.1	85.7	<0.001

↵a While there were 74 patient–GP pairs and 52 patient–district nurse pairs, not all symptom assessments were completed by both raters in each set of pairs which results in different numbers of pairs for individual symptoms.
↵b McNemar test.