Evaluating quality of care at the end of life and setting best practice performance standards: a population-based observational study using linked routinely collected administrative databases

Table 4 Percentage of study population (N = 109,707) who used different types of hospital care, in various time periods before death^a

Type of hospital care	Last 360 days	Last 180 days	Last 90 days	Last 30 days	Last 7 days
Hospital admission^a	60.2%	53.0%	45.5%	32.0%	14.3%
Acute hospital admission^a	54.4%	47.8%	41.0%	28.8%	13.2%
ED visit	47.8%	41.2%	34.8%	23.9%	10.9%
ICU admission^a	8.5%	7.1%	6.2%	5.3%	4.4%
Tube or intravenous feeding in hospital	1.6%	1.0%	1.0%	0.7%	0.4%
Resuscitation in hospital	1.0%	0.9%	0.9%	0.9%	0.8%

^a Calculations are based on the first day of hospital or ICU admissions. It is possible that an admission extends into a time period closer to death

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