Table 2.
Utilization of specialized palliative services at end-of-life: Overall distribution of place of CVD deaths by healthcare region.
| Home death |
Hospital death |
Nursing home death |
Death in other placea | Specialized palliative care at death | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Healthcare region |
in pecialized palliative care service |
in pecialized palliative care service |
in pecialized palliative care service |
|||||
| Noa | Yesa | Noa | Yesa | Noa | Yesa | |||
| Northern region | 4442 (19.8 %) | 87 (0.4 %) | 8215 (36.6 %) | 103 (0.5 %) | 9173 (40.8 %) | 68 (0.3 %) | 386 (1.7 %) | 1.2 % |
| Uppsala-Örebro region | 10361 (21.1 %) | 148 (0.3 %) | 17939 (36.6 %) | 499 (1.0 %) | 19271 (39.3 %) | 57 (0.1 %) | 725 (1.5 %) | 1.4 % |
| Stockholm region | 7128 (20.5 %) | 657 (1.9 %) | 12599 (36.2 %) | 1064 (3.1 %) | 12732 (36.6 %) | 50 (0.1 %) | 591 (1.7 %) | 5.1 % |
| Western region | 8426 (21.7 %) | 106 (0.3 %) | 14494 (37.3 %) | 156 (0.4 %) | 15003 (38.7 %) | 88 (0.2 %) | 534 (1.4 %) | 0.9 % |
| South-eastern region | 5400 (20.8 %) | 245 (0.9 %) | 8335 (32.1 %) | 395 (1.5 %) | 11209 (43.2 %) | 73 (0.3 %) | 298 (1.1 %) | 2.7 % |
| Southern region | 8838 (22.9 %) | 164 (0.4 %) | 14584 (37.8 %) | 323 (0.8 %) | 14205 (36.9 %) | 68 (0.2 %) | 352 (0.9 %) | 1.4 |
| Total population | 44630 (21.3 %) | 1407 (0.7 %) | 76198 (36.3 %) | 2540 (1.2 %) | 81600 (38.9 %) | 404 (0.2 %) | 2892 (1.4 %) | 2.1 % |
Notes: a n and (row percentage).