Table 1.
Descriptive overview of 1034 patient records
| Frailty/dementia | Cancer | Organ failure | Total | |
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| Total number of patient records assessed | 408 | 361 | 265 | 1034 |
| Patient records with a KIS, n (%) | 299 (73) | 288 (80) | 125 (47) | 712 (69) |
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| Components of anticipatory care planning of total records with a KIS, n (%)a | ||||
| Resuscitation status recorded | 222 (74) | 188 (65) | 72 (58) | 482 (68) |
| Palliative care summary commenced | 66 (22) | 210 (73) | 38 (30) | 314 (44) |
| Preferred place of care recorded | 180 (60) | 152 (53) | 58 (46) | 390 (55) |
| Preferred place of final care/death recorded | 153 (51) | 118 (41) | 36 (29) | 307 (43) |
| Anticipatory medication started before death | 71 (24) | 108 (38) | 27 (22) | 206 (29) |
| Next of kin or carer recorded in KIS | 196 (66) | 156 (54) | 72 (58) | 424 (60) |
| Next of kin or carer contact details in KIS | 127 (42) | 129 (45) | 56 (45) | 312 (44) |
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| Timing of anticipatory care planning, median weeks before deathb | ||||
| KIS commenced before death | 88 | 15 | 82 | 45 |
| Resuscitation status discussed before death | 32 | 6 | 25 | 15 |
| Palliative care summary commenced before death | 2 | 9 | 13 | 8 |
| Preferred place of care documented before death | 34 | 6 | 29 | 13 |
| Preferred place of final care documented before death | 14 | 6 | 8 | 8 |
| Anticipatory medication prescribed before death | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 |
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| Place of death, n (%) | ||||
| Hospitalc | 168 (41) | 149 (41) | 158 (60) | 475 (46) |
| Home | 56 (14) | 98 (27) | 78 (29) | 232 (22) |
| Care home | 174 (43) | 24 (7) | 13 (5) | 211 (20) |
| Hospice | 3 (1) | 78 (22) | 3 (1) | 84 (8) |
| Other | 7 (2) | 12 (3) | 13 (5) | 32 (3) |
a
Components of anticipatory care planning shows the number of patients with a KIS record containing the information listed. The % is the number of KIS’s with each item of information recorded divided by the number of patients with a KIS by illness trajectory.
b
Median weeks based only on those patients with each component documented in the KIS.
c
’Hospital’ includes both acute and community hospitals. KIS = Key Information Summary.