Table 4.

Number of patients experiencing greater than or equal to two emergency department (ED) visits in the last 3 months of life, ≥30 days spent in hospital in the last 3 months of life and death in hospital for each cancer type

	Entire cohort	Patients with greater than or equal to two ED visits in the last 3 months of life		Patients who spent ≥30 days in hospital in the last 3 months of life		Patients who died in hospital
	N	N	%	N	%	N	%
	681	194	29.8	108	15.9	258	38.0
Cancer type
Lung	145	37	26.6	15	10.3	53	36.6
Breast	52	10	20.0	4	7.7	13	25.0
Prostate	46	22	52.4	11	23.9	27	58.7
Gastrointestinal tract	167	42	25.3	27	16.2	52	31.1
Haematological	54	18	38.3	16	29.6	32	59.3
Cancer of unknown primary	61	24	39.3	11	18.0	26	42.6
Othera	156	41	27.9	24	15.4	55	35.5

^aOther cancers included those of the urinary tract (5.0 %), gynaecological (3.8 %), central nervous system (3.8 %) and skin (1.8 %) with percentage figures referring to entire cohort data