Table 1 Patient characteristics
Characteristics | N = 100 |
|---|---|
Gender in % | |
 Male / female | 35 / 65 |
Age in years | |
 median (IQR) | 77 (67 to 85) |
Duration of admission in days | |
 Median (IQR) | 28 (9 to 51) |
Assessments days before death | |
 Median (IQR) | 3 (1 to 13) |
Primary diagnose in N (%) | |
 Neoplasms | 89 |
  Digestive organs | 26 (29) |
  Respiratory and intra-thoracic organs | 17 (19) |
  Female genital organs | 9 (10) |
  Breast | 7 (8) |
  Eye, brain and other parts of central nervous system | 7 (8) |
  Lymphoid, hematopoietic and related tissue | 7 (8) |
  Ill –defined, secondary and unspecified sites | 7 (8) |
  Other | 9 (10) |
 Disease of nervous system | 4 (acquired brain injury; Parkinson’s disease; systemic atrophy) |
 Infectious and parasitic disease | 3 (pneumonia and frailty) |
 Other | 4 (CVA; lung disease, kidney failure, invalidity) |
Analgesics in % | |
 Opioids around the clock | 73 |
 None | 11 |
 Non-opioids around the clock | 9 |
 Opioids as needed | 6 |
 Non-opioids as need | 1 |