Fig. 1.

Factors associated with measures of hospital-based service utilisation during the last year of life (n = 34,556). Odds ratios and 95% confidence intervals all adjusted for sex, age group, socioeconomic quintile (category), place of residence and cause of death. Panels: (a) > 3 hospitalisations, (b) single hospitalisation > 30 days, (c) > 3 months spent in hospital, (d) ICU admission, (e) at least 1 ED presentation, (f) > 3 ED presentations, (g) Palliative care input (restricted definition), (h) Palliative care, broader definition, (i) Death in inpatient setting*. ICU: intensive care unit; ED: emergency department. ED measures are for the people resident in the geographical area where recording of ED presentations was complete (n = 21,544). Palliative care restricted definition: Includes persons recorded as undergoing review by a specialist palliative care team or who were admitted to one of five stand-alone hospice/inpatient palliative care facilities in NSW. Palliative care broader definition: Patients already captured in restricted definition, plus those referred to palliative care specialist teams or facilities, availing of a palliative care bed, and/or where service category/service-related group/diagnosis code indicated palliative care. * Includes death in hospital, hospice/palliative care ward of a hospital, or stand-alone hospice/palliative care unit. Included as separate file. Figure graphic included in separate file