Table 3.

Correlation of hospital number experience per indicator and ICU admission or chemotherapy use before death.

Outcome of Interest	3 Months before Death		Final Month before Death
	Correlation r (Weighted)	Significance p (Two-Tailed)	Correlation r (Weighted)	Significance p (Two-Tailed)	Institutions (no.)
ICU admission	0.18	0.11	0.20	0.07 *	81
Chemotherapy	−0.12	0.29	−0.23	0.04 **	81
Chemotherapy within subpopulations
With previous chemotherapy	−0.12	0.30	−0.18	0.12	75
Without previous chemotherapy	−0.21	0.06 *	−0.23	0.03 **	81

ICU: intensive care unit; no.: number; * p < 0.10; ** p < 0.05 (two-tailed); correlations are weighted for number of observations.