Figure.

Cumulative number of days spent in hospital by men in the final 15 years of life, by age at death and number of years before death, for the values within each age group at the 25th, 50th, 75th, and 95th centiles of “heaviness” of hospital use. These data are cross sectional—that is, based on the values taken by the total population in the year before death, 2 years before death, 3 years before death, etc