Life prolonging treatment | Withholding treatment | Withdrawing treatment | Intensification of alleviation of symptoms | Administration of a medication to deliberately hasten death | No decision | Total deaths | |||||||
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n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | |
Gender | |||||||||||||
Man | 302 | 15.62 | 335 | 17.32 | 105 | 5.43 | 641 | 33.15 | 20 | 1.02 | 531 | 27.46 | 1934 |
Woman | 274 | 13.74 | 354 | 17.78 | 94 | 4.72 | 686 | 34.45 | 18 | 0.89 | 566 | 28.42 | 1991 |
p value | 0.0865 | 0.7323 | 0.3214 | 0.4289 | 0.6790 | 0.5478 | |||||||
Age | |||||||||||||
18-49 | 37 | 24.82 | 14 | 9.41 | 7 | 4.71 | 50 | 33.62 | 1 | 0.56 | 40 | 26.89 | 149 |
50-69 | 139 | 19.79 | 74 | 10.52 | 43 | 6.11 | 268 | 38.08 | 11 | 1.63 | 168 | 23.87 | 704 |
70-79 | 113 | 14.63 | 128 | 16.63 | 42 | 5.46 | 294 | 38.20 | 7 | 0.90 | 186 | 24.17 | 770 |
80-89 | 204 | 13.05 | 309 | 19.79 | 79 | 5.06 | 486 | 31.13 | 16 | 1.04 | 467 | 29.92 | 1561 |
90+ | 83 | 11.30 | 163 | 22.07 | 29 | 3.93 | 227 | 30.74 | 2 | 0.27 | 234 | 31.69 | 738 |
p value | <0.0001 | <0.0001 | 0.4066 | 0.0003 | 0.1118 | 0.0008 | |||||||
Place of death | |||||||||||||
At home | 104 | 15.60 | 100 | 14.96 | 22 | 3.29 | 150 | 22.44 | 9 | 1.37 | 283 | 42.34 | 668 |
Public hospital | 334 | 15.67 | 393 | 18.44 | 121 | 5.68 | 793 | 37.21 | 16 | 0.76 | 474 | 22.24 | 2131 |
Private hospital | 59 | 14.97 | 56 | 14.15 | 23 | 5.81 | 156 | 39.41 | 8 | 1.92 | 94 | 23.75 | 396 |
Hospice, retirement home | 66 | 9.95 | 132 | 19.83 | 33 | 4.96 | 207 | 31.10 | 3 | 0.51 | 224 | 33.65 | 666 |
Public place, street or other | 12 | 18.90 | 8 | 12.43 | 0 | 0.00 | 20 | 31.08 | 1 | 1.85 | 23 | 35.74 | 64 |
p value | 0.0037 | 0.0124 | 0.0181 | <0.0001 | 0.1017 | <0.0001 | |||||||
Cause of death | |||||||||||||
Cancer | 69 | 5.57 | 171 | 13.76 | 50 | 4.02 | 643 | 51.73 | 21 | 1.68 | 289 | 23.25 | 1243 |
Cardio-vascular disease | 208 | 24.92 | 129 | 15.46 | 42 | 5.03 | 175 | 20.97 | 4 | 0.44 | 277 | 33.19 | 835 |
Neurological disease | 68 | 11.02 | 146 | 23.59 | 42 | 6.79 | 183 | 29.57 | 5 | 0.76 | 175 | 28.27 | 619 |
Infectious disease | 63 | 21.01 | 64 | 21.43 | 15 | 5.02 | 101 | 33.81 | 3 | 0.99 | 53 | 17.74 | 299 |
Respiratory disease | 45 | 17.29 | 76 | 29.37 | 11 | 4.25 | 61 | 23.57 | 3 | 1.17 | 63 | 24.35 | 259 |
Digestive disease | 42 | 25.77 | 27 | 16.53 | 7 | 4.29 | 47 | 28.78 | 1 | 0.75 | 39 | 23.88 | 163 |
Mental or psychiatric disorder | 7 | 5.57 | 24 | 19.85 | 10 | 8.27 | 38 | 31.43 | 1 | 0.97 | 41 | 33.91 | 121 |
Other cause | 64 | 19.28 | 45 | 13.55 | 21 | 6.33 | 64 | 19.28 | 0 | 0.00 | 138 | 41.57 | 332 |
. | 11 | 20.26 | 5 | 9.49 | 2 | 3.80 | 14 | 26.58 | 0 | 0.00 | 21 | 39.87 | 53 |
p value | <0.0001 | <0.0001 | 0.1918 | <0.0001 | (0.0728) | <0.0001 | |||||||
Incurable disease | |||||||||||||
Yes | 235 | 9.63 | 434 | 17.79 | 120 | 4.92 | 982 | 40.25 | 29 | 1.17 | 640 | 26.23 | 2440 |
No | 303 | 23.09 | 224 | 17.06 | 72 | 5.48 | 319 | 24.29 | 9 | 0.68 | 386 | 29.39 | 1313 |
. | 38 | 21.92 | 31 | 17.78 | 7 | 4.05 | 26 | 14.82 | 0 | 0.00 | 72 | 41.43 | 173 |
p value | <0.0001 | 0.5357 | 0.5044 | <0.0001 | 0.2138 | 0.0231 |