Table 5.

GP participation in progressive disease, treatment with opiates, place where the person received terminal care and died, and contact with the family after the patient's death

	France		Norway
	N	%	N	%
GP participated in care after clinical aggravation or relapse	392	701	138	661
Opiates prescribed for home use 2	399	24	122	32
By GP alone	214	54	42	35
By GP + hospital/pain team	100	25	40	33
By hospital/pain team	85	21	40	33
Location of terminal care3:
Home or home institution	220	70	86	80
Special unit for palliative care	32	10	12	11
Hospital	144	45	49	46
Hereof only in hospital	99	31	20	19
Dead:	247	15	78	20
Hereof at home	100	41	21	27
Contact with family after death	217	88	55	71

¹ Of 561 French patients and 208 Norwegian patients with progressive disease or relapse.

² Data missing for 3 Norwegian patients

³ Counting patients in terminal phase or dead