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. 2014 Jun 3;11(6):e1001653. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001653

Table 4. Cause of death by age bands and hospital as place of death.

CoD Hospital PoD by 5 Year Age Bands
80–84 yearsn = 496,888 85– 89 yearsn = 452,161 90–94 yearsn = 268,059 95–99 yearsn = 84,324 100+ yearsn = 9,740
Percent (95% CI) Percent (95% CI) Percent (95% CI) Percent (95% CI) Percent (95% CI)
Pneumonia 7.3 7.2–7.3 9.7 9.6–9.8 13.1 13.0–13.3 16.5 16.3–16.8 21.8 21.0–22.6
Cerebro-vascular 13.0 12.9–13.1 14.2 14.1–14.3 14.8 14.7–14.9 14.2 13.9–14.4 12.4 11.8–13.1
Circulatory 10.6 10.5–10.7 11.5 11.4–11.6 11.9 11.8–12.1 11.9 11.6–12.1 11.4 10.7–12.0
IHD 18.5 18.4–18.7 18.1 18.0–18.2 16.6 16.5–16.8 15.1 14.8–15.3 11.9 11.2–12.5
Respiratory (others) 10.9 10.8–10.9 9.6 9.5–9.7 8.2 8.1–8.3 7.7 7.5–7.9 6.9 6.4–7.4
Dementia and AD 2.5 2.5–2.6 3.6 3.5–3.6 4.3 4.3–4.4 4.7 4.5–4.8 3.1 2.8–3.5
Cancer 19.6 19.4–19.7 14.5 14.4–14.6 10.2 10.1–10.3 6.9 6.7–7.1 4.5 4.1–4.9
“Old age”/frailty 0.4 0.3–0.4 0.8 0.8–0.8 2.1 2.1–2.2 4.1 3.9–4.2 9.7 9.1–10.2
Other 17.3 17.1–17.4 18.0 17.9–18.1 18.6 18.5–18.8 19.1 18.8–19.3 18.3 17.5–19.1

AD, Alzheimer disease; CoD, cause of death; IHD, ischaemic heart disease; PoD, place of death.