Demographic information for deceased patients
| Demographic for deceased patients within local survey (n=858) | Demographic for deceased patients within case note review (n=6580) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | % | n | % | |
| Diagnosed illnesses during the last days of life (n=858) | ||||
| Cancer (including leukaemia and lymphoma) | 265 | 31 | 1546 | 23 |
| Heart failure | 228 | 27 | 499 | 8 |
| COPD | 162 | 19 | 439 | 7 |
| End-stage renal (or kidney) disease | 118 | 14 | 114 | 2 |
| Dementia | 114 | 13 | 181 | 3 |
| Motor neuron disease | 4 | 0.5 | 57 | 1 |
| Do not know | 30 | 3 | NA | NA |
| Something else | 235 | 27 | 3744 | 57 |
| Age in years (n=816) | Median patient age 82 (IQR 73–88) | |||
| 18–19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 20–29 | 1 | 0.1 | 0 | 10 |
| 30–39 | 1 | 0.1 | 0 | 33 |
| 40–49 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 122 |
| 50–59 | 32 | 4 | 5 | 299 |
| 60–69 | 102 | 13 | 11 | 697 |
| 70–79 | 218 | 27 | 24 | 1568 |
| 80+ | 456 | 56 | 58 | 3846 |
| Ethnicity (n=809) | ||||
| White British | 780 | 96 | 89 | 5870 |
| Mixed white/black Caribbean | 0 | 0 | 0 | 24 |
| White Irish | 8 | 1 | 1 | 58 |
| Mixed white/black African | 1 | 0.1 | 0 | 1 |
| White other | 14 | 2 | 2 | 121 |
| Mixed white/Asian | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Indian | 1 | 0.1 | 1 | 61 |
| Mixed other | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 |
| Pakistani | 0 | 0 | 1 | 39 |
| Black Caribbean | 0 | 0 | 1 | 55 |
| Bangladeshi | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 |
| Black African | 2 | 0.2 | 1 | 35 |
| Asian other | 1 | 0.1 | 1 | 56 |
| Black other | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| None of these | 2 | 0.2 | 4 | 232 |
| Gender (n=782) | ||||
| Male | 395 | 51 | 49 | 3248 |
| Female | 387 | 49 | 51 | 3332 |
| Religious affiliation (n=805) | ||||
| None | 109 | 14 | 29 | 1882 |
| Christian | 678 | 84 | 65 | 4252 |
| Hindu | 0 | 0 | 1 | 46 |
| Buddhist | 2 | 0.2 | 0 | 16 |
| Jewish | 5 | 1 | 1 | 49 |
| Muslim | 1 | 0.1 | 1 | 94 |
| Sikh | 1 | 0.1 | 0 | 24 |
| Any other religion | 9 | (9) | 3 | 217 |