Table 3

OR and 95% CI of patient demographic and clinical characteristics associated with actual place of death*

		Home		Care home		Hospice
		OR (95% CI)	P value	OR (95% CI)	P value	OR (95% CI)	P value
Gender
Male		1.00	–	1.00	–	1.00	–
Female		1.04 (0.74 to 1.48)	0.808	2.46 (1.60 to 3.77)	<0.001	1.26 (0.81 to 1.98)	0.309
Age at death (years)
≤74		1.00	–	1.00	–	1.00	–
75+		0.99 (0.70 to 1.39)	0.951	11.42 (5.21 to 25.10)	<0.001	0.83 (0.53 to 1.29)	0.400
IMD category*
Most affluent	1	1.00	–	1.00	–	1.00	–
	2	1.21 (0.81 to 1.81)	0.363	1.49 (0.92 to 2.44)	0.109	1.05 (0.62 to 1.79)	0.863
Most deprived	3	1.02 (0.67 to 1.57)	0.914	0.98 (0.57 to 1.68)	0.929	1.00 (0.58 to 1.74)	0.988
First diagnosis
DLBCL†		1.00	–	1.00	–	1.00	–
Myeloma‡		1.52 (0.85 to 2.75)	0.159	0.47 (0.22 to 1.03)	0.058	0.76 (0.32 to 1.82)	0.540
AML§		1.10 (0.57 to 2.09)	0.794	0.36 (0.15 to 0.89)	0.027	1.01 (0.43 to 2.37)	0.988
MDS¶		1.23 (0.64 to 2.37)	0.535	0.41 (0.17 to 1.01)	0.052	1.03 (0.43 to 2.49)	0.942
CLL**		1.38 (0.69 to 2.78)	0.364	0.96 (0.44 to 2.09)	0.921	1.42 (0.58 to 3.46)	0.443
MPN††		2.30 (1.13 to 4.69)	0.021	2.16 (1.04 to 4.49)	0.038	1.28 (0.45 to 3.62)	0.647
Other		0.97 (0.55 to 1.72)	0.925	0.81 (0.44 to 1.47)	0.481	1.47 (0.74 to 2.95)	0.273
Time from diagnosis to death (months)
0–6 months		0.65 (0.43 to 0.99)	0.044	0.94 (0.58 to 1.51)	0.795	0.42 (0.22 to 0.79)	0.007
6+ months		1.00	–	1.00	–	1.00	–
Underlying cause of death‡‡
Haematological malignancy		0.89 (0.62 to 1.28)	0.531	0.71 (0.46 to 1.09)	0.116	1.37 (0.83 to 2.28)	0.220
Other		1.00	–	1.00	–	1.00	–
Patient lived alone§§
Yes		0.88 (0.59 to 1.29)	0.506	0.68 (0.41 to 1.13)	0.134	1.70 (1.07 to 2.69)	0.025
No/unknown		1.00	–	1.00	–	1.00	–
Hospital-based SPC¶¶ referral
Yes		1.24 (0.87 to 1.72)	0.245	0.46 (0.27 to 0.78)	0.004	5.85 (3.54 to 9.66)	<0.001
No		1.00	–	1.00	–	1.00	–
Preferred place of death discussion recorded
Yes		1.90 (1.34 to 2.68)	<0.001	1.87 (1.34 to 2.68)	0.005	5.24 (3.07 to 8.94)	<0.001
No		1.00	–	1.00	–	1.00	–

Bold font indicates statistical significance.
*Reference category is hospital death.
†Index of Multiple Deprivation (income domain): one patient with missing data.
‡Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.
§Acute myeloid leukaemia.
¶Myelodysplastic syndromes.
**Chronic lymphocytic leukaemia.
††Myeloproliferative neoplasms.
‡‡Derived from death certificate data, Medical Research Information Service.
§§Patient lived alone: ‘No’ includes 24 patients where it was ‘unknown’.
¶¶Specialist palliative care: ‘No’ includes 25 patients where SPC is ‘Unknown’.