Table 1.

Primary care involvement within the 3 months preceding death for 168 children.

	Deaths, n (%)
Primary care actions	Primary care involved	Primary care not involved	Total
Diagnosis of and response to acute illness
Infection	18 (11)	7 (4)	25 (15)
Other acute illness	2 (1)	3 (2)	5 (3)
Management of asthma and epilepsy	9 (5)	2 (1)	11 (7)
Diagnosis and palliative care for cancer	22 (13)	0	22 (13)
Management of the effects of congenital, neonatal, and degenerative disabilities	33 (20)	13 (8)	46 (27)
Sudden deaths	6 (4)	53 (32)	59 (35)
Total	90 (54)	78 (46)	168 (100)