What care do people with dementia receive at the end of life? Lessons from a retrospective clinical audit of deaths in hospital and other settings

Table 1 Characteristics of people who died with dementia in hospital vs other settings in the administrative sample (n = 705)

Administrative sample	Hospital (n = 346)	Other settings (n = 359)	P-value
Age at death, mean (95%CI)	85.5 (68.0, 97.0)	84.8 (68.0, 97.0)	0.236
Female (%)	171 (49)	182 (51)	0.793
English as preferred language (%)	341 (99)	353 (98)	1.000
Born in Australia (%)	258 (75)	288 (80)	0.088
Primary diagnosis is Mental and behavioural disorders (F00-F99) (%)^b	54 (16)	67 (19)	0.329
Primary diagnosis is Diseases of the respiratory system (J00-J99) (%)^b	70 (20)	42 (12)	0.003^a
Primary diagnosis is Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T98) (%)^b	58 (17)	62 (17)	0.937

^aStatistically significant results ^bCategorised using ICD-10 Clinical Modification codes. The reliability of primary diagnosis data for people who died in other settings is unknown, and findings should be interpreted cautiously

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