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 |