Table 6.
Representativitity of reported deaths in the EURO SENTIMELC study 2009–2010
| Belgium | The Netherlands | Italy | Spain | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| |
|
Non-sudden deaths in the SENTI-MELC study |
Non-sudden deaths in the 2007 death certificate study |
|
Non-sudden deaths in the SENTI-MELC study |
Non-sudden deaths in the 2005 death certificate study |
|
All deaths in the SENTI-MELC study |
All deaths in the country 2007 |
|
All deaths in the SENTI-MELC study |
All deaths in the regions 2010 |
|
| |
|
%* |
%* |
p** |
%† |
%† |
p** |
% |
% |
p** |
% |
% |
P** |
| |
|
N = 928 |
N = 2729 |
|
N = 635 |
N = 63038 |
|
N = 2783 |
N = 572881 |
|
N = 388 |
N = 67233 |
|
| Age |
1-64 |
13 |
16 |
0.01 |
18 |
21 |
ns |
13 |
14 |
ns |
11 |
15 |
ns |
| |
65-84 |
50 |
52 |
|
50 |
36 |
|
48 |
50 |
|
46 |
46 |
|
| |
85+ |
37 |
32 |
|
32 |
43 |
|
39 |
36 |
|
43 |
39 |
|
| Gender |
Male |
46 |
47 |
ns |
47 |
51 |
.04 |
48 |
49 |
ns |
53 |
52 |
ns |
| |
Female |
54 |
53 |
|
53 |
49 |
|
52 |
51 |
|
47 |
48 |
|
| Place of death§ |
Home |
23 |
21 |
.0001 |
44 |
33 |
ns |
48 |
‡ |
- |
48 |
‡ |
- |
| |
Residential home |
31 |
25 |
|
18 |
16 |
|
7 |
‡ |
|
11 |
‡ |
|
| Hospital PCU/hospice | 45 | 51 | 38 | 47 | 43 | ‡ | 41 | ‡ | |||||
* Numbers for Flanders, the Dutch-speaking part of the country (60% of the population) only, due to absence of death certificates database in the French-speaking part of Belgium.
† Excluding nursing home deaths in the Netherlands.
‡ Unknown for Italy and Spain. Although data on place of death are not available in Italy from the national official statistics, the results for cancer deaths were similar to the ISDOC study figures of 2003 [45].
§ IT and SP: each 1% POD elsewhere; BE 3% other.
**p-values using Fisher exact test.