Table 2.
Palliative care provision by place of death
| Place of death | Palliative care provision (n=2479) | Subgroup receiving palliative care (n=1598) | |||||
| Not received | Received | Post hoc | No of palliative events | Time between first contact with palliative care and death | |||
| No (%) | No (%) | Median (IQR) | Post hoc | Median (IQR) | Post hoc | ||
| Own home | 280 (31.8) | 429 (26.8) | <0.05 | 2 events (1–3) | i | 7 weeks (2.5–17) | i, ii |
| Hospice | 128 (14.5) | 629 (39.4) | <0.05 | 2 events (1–3) | ii | 7 weeks (3–19) | iii, iv |
| Hospital | 353 (40.1) | 372 (23.3) | <0.05 | 2 events (1–2) | i, ii, iii | 3 weeks (1–14) | i, iii, v |
| Care home | 106 (12.0) | 139 (8.7) | <0.05 | 2 events (1–3) | iii | 13 weeks (4–35) | ii, iv, v |
| Other | 1 (0.1) | 0 (0.0) | – | – | – | ||
| Unknown | 13 (1.5) | 29 (1.8) | – | – | – | ||
| Statistical test | (χ2 (3)=180.52, P<0.001) | (K–W (3)=128.14, P<0.001) | (K–W (3)=75.77, P<0.001) | ||||
χ2, (df shown in brackets); Post hoc, multiple comparison z-test statistics comparing mean ranks for each possible two category comparison group; i, ii, iii, iv, v links categories where post hoc comparison groups which resulted in a P value less than 0.05 (after adjusting using the Bonferroni correction).
K–W, Kruskal-Wallis H test.