Fig 2.

Adjusted estimates of quality of life near death by receipt of spiritual care in patients with advanced cancer (n = 299). All models are adjusted for baseline quality of life, baseline social support, baseline existential well-being, recruitment site, patient-physician relationship, spiritual support from religious communities, receipt of outside-hospital clergy visits, receipt of hospice care at end of life, receipt of any aggressive care at end of life, and the person reporting quality of life near death. Sample has been reduced to 299 patients because of missing data. Analyses were repeated with missing data imputed to their mean values (n = 343), and the results were unchanged. Quality of life in the last week of life, possible scores 0 to 30. Whole sample: mean = 19.0, standard deviation = 7.9.