75-85 years | >85 years | |||||
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N = 964 (57.3) | N = 717 (42.7) | |||||
Comfort care | Life-prolonging or curative treatment | p-value | Comfort care | Life-prolonging or curative treatment | p-value | |
N = 683 (73.4) | N = 248 (26.6) | N = 574 (84.2) | N = 108 (15.8) | |||
Sex | 0.540 | 0.005 | ||||
Female | 337 (72.5) | 128 (27.5) | 418 (86.7) | 64 (13.3) | ||
Male | 346 (74.2) | 120 (25.8) | 156 (78.0) | 44 (22.0) | ||
Marital status | 0.505 | 0.004 | ||||
Widowed | 258 (70.9) | 106 (29.1) | 425 (85.9) | 70 (14.1) | ||
Married | 347 (75.6) | 112 (24.4) | 94 (74.0) | 33 (26.0) | ||
Single | 59 (72.8) | 22 (27.2) | 45 (88.2) | 6 (11.8) | ||
Divorced | 19 (73.1) | 7 (26.9) | 10 (100) | 0 (0.0) | ||
Education | 0.131 | 0.141 | ||||
Primary school | 262 (69.7) | 114 (30.3) | 284 (85.3) | 49 (14.7) | ||
High school (not graduated) | 126 (75.4) | 41 (24.6) | 77 (90.6) | 8 (9.4) | ||
High school/college | 86 (72.3) | 33 (27.7) | 50 (79.4) | 13 (20.6) | ||
Unknown | 209 (77.7) | 60 (22.3) | 163 (81.1) | 38 (18.9) | ||
Place of death | <0.001 | <0.001 | ||||
Hospital | 292 (57.1) | 219 (42.9) | 148 (70.5) | 62 (29.5) | ||
Care home | 180 (90.5) | 19 (9.5) | 338 (89.7) | 39 (10.3) | ||
Home | 191 (95.5) | 9 (4.5) | 74 (91.4) | 7 (8.6) | ||
Cause of death | <0.001 | <0.001 | ||||
Cardiovascular disease | 116 (60.4) | 76 (39.6) | 174 (84.9) | 31 (15.1) | ||
Malignant disease | 276 (89.9) | 31 (10.1) | 93 (93.9) | 6 (6.1) | ||
Respiratory disease | 86 (65.6) | 45 (34.4) | 61 (65.6) | 32 (34.4) | ||
CVA/stroke | 65 (65.7) | 34 (34.3) | 53 (88.3) | 7 (11.7) | ||
Disease of the nervous system | 34 (81.0) | 8 (19.0) | 25 (86.2) | 4 (13.8) | ||
Other disease | 106 (66.2) | 54 (33.8) | 168 (86.2) | 27 (13.8) | ||
Capacity to make decisions† | <0.001 | 1.000 | ||||
Capable | 153 (92.7) | 12 (7.3) | 62 (89.9) | 7 (10.1) | ||
Incapacitated | 264 (71.9) | 103 (28.1) | 269 (89.1) | 33 (10.9) | ||
Time in treatment for disease that caused death | <0.001 | <0.001 | ||||
1-7 days | 67 (39.4) | 103 (60.6) | 90 (65.7) | 47 (34.3) | ||
7 days – 1 month | 102 (63.4) | 59 (36.6) | 103 (80.5) | 25 (19.5) | ||
1 month – 1 year | 132 (76.7) | 40 (23.3) | 98 (90.7) | 10 (9.3) | ||
More than 1 year | 69 (94.5) | 4 (5.5) | 34 (97.1) | 1 (2.9) |