Table 3.

All assigned causes of death by documented palliative/not and total

	Documented as palliative		Not documented as palliative		Total
	Frequency	Percentage of patients	Frequency	Percentage of patients	Frequency	Percentage of patients
Malignancy	394	70.7	304	31.2	698	45.6
Cardiac disease excluding myocardial infarction	137	24.6	396	40.7	533	34.8
Acute lower respiratory infection	87	15.6	298	30.6	385	25.2
Dementia	121	21.7	244	25.1	365	23.9
Age-related physical debility	96	17.2	136	14.0	232	15.2
Respiratory disease	57	10.2	175	18.0	232	15.2
Stroke (haemorrhage or infarction)	56	10.1	124	12.7	180	11.8
Gastrointestinal disease	20	3.6	128	13.2	148	9.7
Type 2 diabetes mellitus without complications	39	7.0	105	10.8	144	9.4
Hypertension	37	6.6	104	10.7	141	9.2
Kidney disease	40	7.2	99	10.2	139	9.1
Peripheral vascular disease	21	3.8	51	5.2	72	4.7
Neurological disease	21	3.8	44	4.5	65	4.2
Urinary tract infection	6	1.1	53	5.4	59	3.9
Rheumatological disease	20	3.6	39	4.0	59	3.9
Other	13	2.3	40	4.1	53	3.5
Complication of procedure/surgery	14	2.5	32	3.3	46	3.0
Sepsis	8	1.4	37	3.8	45	2.9
Endocrinological disease	6	1.1	35	3.6	41	2.7
Parkinson’s disease	12	2.2	28	2.9	40	2.6
Acute kidney failure	6	1.1	34	3.5	40	2.6
Acute myocardial infarction	8	1.4	31	3.2	39	2.5
Fracture	14	2.5	25	2.6	39	2.5
Pulmonary embolism	6	1.1	24	2.5	30	2.0
Infection (excluding LRTI and UTI)	4	0.7	25	2.6	29	1.9
Psychiatric	6	1.1	14	1.4	20	1.3
Non-malignant haematological	4	0.7	12	1.2	16	1.0
Traumatic	2	0.4	6	0.6	8	0.5
Fall	2	0.4	2	0.2	4	0.3
Drug related	0	0.0	4	0.4	4	0.3