Relatives’ perceived quality of palliative care: comparisons between care settings in which patients die

BMC Palliative Care

Table 4 Differences in the quality of care or various places of death^{a, b, c}

	Home	Residential care for the elderly	Hospital	Hospice	Palliative care unit^d	Other institution^e
General quality rating (0–10)
Care provided to the patient in last week of life	ref	−0.584	−0.921	0.010	−0.529	−0.163
Support by healthcare professionals for relatives before death of the patient	ref	−0.416	−0.892	0.229	−0.451	0.308
Support by healthcare professionals for relatives after death of the patient	ref	−0.071	−0.971	0.582	−0.266	0.396
CQI^f dimensions (1–4)
Care for the psychosocial/spiritual well-being of the patient	ref	−0.164	−0.274	−0.167	−0.227	−0.229
Care for the relative’s own psychosocial/spiritual well-being	ref	−0.188	−0.473	−0.040	−0.139	−0.032
Attitude to the relatives	ref	−0.187	−0.367	−0.042	−0.136	−0.193
Respect/care for autonomy	ref	−0.266	−0.388	−0.176	−0.306	−0.334
Information for the relative in the last week before death	ref	−0.071	−0.294	0.118	−0.118	0.027
Expertise	ref	−0.204	−0.150	−0.051	−0.197	−0.118

^aCorrected for age and gender of the patient, age, gender, level of education and perceived health of the relative and their relationship to the patient; characteristics of the patient’s disease (disease and burden of symptoms)
^bFor the sake of brevity, only the coefficients for the place of death have been reported
^cItems in bold are significantly different from the reference group (= home) (p < 0.05)
^dPalliative care unit at a nursing home or care home
^eOther institution, mainly care for the handicapped or mental healthcare
^f CQI Consumer Quality Index, a survey for measuring experiences

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