Table 2.

Patients’ characteristics, 14 days before death.

	Primary palliative care			Specialized palliative homecare			Total			Primary palliative care vs Specialized palliative homecare
	All	Non-cancer	Cancer	All	Non-cancer	Cancer	All	Non-cancer	Cancer	MD or PP	p-Value
Patients receiving palliative homecare 14 days before death
n	11,783	5141	6629	7123	1065	6058	18,906	6219	12,687		<0.0001
%	62.32	43.74	56.26	37.68	14.95	85.05	100.00	32.89		67.11
Patients without gastrointestinal cancer or corresponding metastases
n	8637	5141	3496	3704	1065	2639	12,341	6219	6135		<0.0001
% of all	73.30	59.52	40.48	52.00	28.75	71.25	65.28	50.39	49.61	21.30
Age in years
Mean (SD)	81.06 (11.32)	85.79 (9.32)	77.38 (11.37)	74.39 (12.25)	81.24 (12.61)	73.18 (11.78)	78.54 (12.12)	85.01 (10.10)	75.37 (11.76)	6.67	<0.0001
Female gender
n	7197	3643	3554	4156	648	3472	11,353	4327	7026		0.0002
%	61.08	50.62	49.38	58.35	16.46	83.54	60.05	38.11	61.89	2.73
Morbidity weight, CCI
Mean (SD)	5.25 (3.74)	3.68 (2.60)	6.47 (4.03)	6.32 (4.05)	3.81 (2.75)	6.76 (4.08)	5.65 (3.89)	3.71 (2.63)	6.61 (4.06)	–1.07	<0.0001
Nursing home resident
n	5164	3154	2010	2195	544	1651	7359	3698	3661		<0.0001
%	43.83	61.08	38.92	30.82	24.78	75.22	38.92	50.25	49.75	13.01
Residency, urban
n (missing: primary palliative care n = 452, specialized palliative homecare n = 270)	8040	3628	4412	4871	817	4054	12,911	4445	8466		0.8661
%	70.96	45.12	54.88	71.08	16.77	71.08	71.00	34.43	65.57	–0.12

CCI: Charlson comorbidity index; MD: mean difference; PP: percentage points difference; SD: standard deviation.