Table 4.
Place of Death Among Deceased Patients According to Their Preferred Place of Death (n = 103).
| Preferred place of death | Place of death (%) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home/LTC | Hospice | Hospital | Othera | Unknown | |
| Known (n = 82/103, 79.6% of deceased patients) | |||||
| Home/LTC (n = 33), n (%) | 21 (63.6) | 6 (18.2) | 6 (18.2) | 0 | 0 |
| Hospice (n = 26), n (%) | 0 | 23 (88.5) | 2 (7.7) | 1 (3.8) | 0 |
| Hospital (n = 6), n (%) | 0 | 0 | 6 (100) | 0 | 0 |
| Othera (n = 17), n (%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 (100) | 0 |
| Unknown (n = 21/103, 20.3% of deceased patients), n (%) | 0 | 3 (14.3) | 13 (61.9) | 3 (14.3) | 2 (9.5) |
Note. LTC = long-term care facility.
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Other places of death included, for example, a friend or relative’s home.