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Figure
3.1: Breathlessness Journal
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In
this study five patients free from breathlessness were followed
for 6 days before and after admission in a palliative care program.
Patients were admitted to the palliative care program on day 2.
Breathlessness was measured throughout this period. The lines
in the table show, for each patient, when breathlessness (B) occurred.
Question 3.1: The incidence of breathlessness
is four patients out of five, or 80%.
Question 3.2: The point prevalence on day two
is 3/5, or 60%.
Question 3.3: The period prevalence is four patients
out of five, or 80%.
Question 3.4: The incidence is one patient out
of five with new breathlessness between days three and five, hence
20%.
Question 3.5: The period prevalence of breathlessness
between days three and five is three patients out of five, or
60%.
Question 3.6: The point prevalence of breathlessness
at the beginning of day five is two patients out of five, or 40%
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