Recruitment route | Patient meets inclusion criteria | Patient invited to participate in study | Patient initially interested in study | Patient did not participate*† | Patient participated in interview |
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Hospital palliative care team in large general city hospital | N=24 | N=15 | N=8 | N=0 | N=8 |
Specialist Palliative care unit including in-patient unit, day care unit and community care | N=33 | N=29 | N=16 | N=5* | N=11 |
Five General Practices’ Gold Standard Framework (GSF) register of patients likely to be in the last year of life | N=14 | N=14 | N=8 | N=3† | N=5 |
Total | N=71 | N=58 | N=32 | N=8 | N=24 |
*Reasons did not participate=died suddenly (n=1); became ‘muddled’ (n=1); declined in health/psychological distress (n=1); lost interest in study (n=2).
†Reasons did not participate=declined in health (n=2); patient ‘too busy’ (n=1).