Table 1. Characteristics of Respondents and Non-Respondents.
| Respondents Mean (SD) or N (%) | Non-Respondents Mean (SD) or N (%) | χ2 | p | |
| N | 92 (33.5%) | 183 (67%) | - | |
| Age (years) | 75.7 (16.0) | 74.2 (17.8) | - | 0.500 |
| Sex of patient | 4.81 | 0.028 | ||
| Male | 58 (63.7%) | 91 (49.7%) | - | |
| Female responses | 45 (77.6%) | |||
| Male responses | 13 (22.4%) | |||
| Female | 33 (36.3%) | 92 (50.3%) | - | |
| Female responses | 11 (33.3%) | |||
| Male responses | 22 (66.7%) | |||
| Length of stay (days) | 15.5 (30.1) | 16.9 (33.6) | 0.742 | |
| Time since death (days) | 41.8 (22.0) | 46.4 (22.1) | 0.112 | |
| Location of death | 0.583 | |||
| Intensive care unit | 41 (45.1%) | 77 (42.1%) | ||
| Hospital ward | 48 (52.7%) | 95 (51.9%) | ||
| Other | 2 (2.2%) | 11 (6.0%) | ||
| Relationship to patient | 2.11 | 0.715 | ||
| Spouse | 52 (57.1%) | 98 (53.6%) | ||
| Son/Daughter | 29 (31.9%) | 69 (37.7%) | ||
| Sibling | 3 (3.2%) | 3 (1.6%) | ||
| Parent | 2 (2.2%) | 6 (3.3%) | ||
| Other | 5 (5.5%) | 7 (3.8%) | ||
| Cause of death | 11.19 | 0.263 | ||
| Cancer | 21 (23.1% | 54 (39.5%) | ||
| Cardiac | 19 (20.8%) | 28 (15.3%) | ||
| Respiratory | 16 (17.6%) | 24 (13.1%) | ||
| Neurological | 14 (15.4%) | 16 (8.7%) | ||
| Trauma | 7 (7.7%) | 17 (9.3%) | ||
| Sepsis | 6 (6.6%) | 10 (5.5%) | ||
| Other | 4 (4.4%) | 12 (6.6%) | ||
| Vascular | 3 (3.3%) | 8 (4.4%) | ||
| Renal | 0 | 5 (2.7%) | ||
| GI | 1 (1.1%) | 9 (4.9%) |
Abbreviations: GI = gastrointestinal.