Dying at home in Belgium: a descriptive GP interview study

BMC Primary Care

Table 1 Characteristics of people dying non-suddenly at home* in Belgium

	Non-sudden deaths at home†		Non-sudden deaths not at home‡
	N = 205	%	N = 830	%	p-value§
Age (years)					.002
1-64	35	18	83	10
65-84	116	58	449	54
85+	48	24	284	34
Gender, female	77	38	456	55	.000
Region					.154
Flanders	114	56	520	63
Wallonia	76	37	253	30
Brussels	15	7	57	7
Educational level					.323
Primary school or less	125	61	526	63
Secondary school	40	20	144	17
High school/university	19	9	55	7
Unknown	21	10	105	13
Fixed partner at time of death	132	65	341	41	.000
Living at home before death					.000
No\|\|	4	2	350	42
Yes, alone	33	16	148	18
Yes, with one or more others	168	82	329	40
Financial status					.401
(very) low	54	26	240	29
Average	106	52	412	50
(very) high	44	22	163	20
Cause of death					.000
Cancer	118	58	291	35
Non-cancer	81	40	534	64

* Own home or home of a relative
† Missing values for non-sudden deaths at home: for Age n = 6, for Fixed partner at time of death n = 1, for Financial status n = 1, for Cause of death n = 6
‡ Missing values for non-sudden deaths not at home: for Age n = 14, for Fixed partner at time of death n = 5, for Living at home before death n = 3, for Financial status n = 15, for Cause of death, n = 5
§ p-value for Chi-square test
|| The 4 patients not living at home before death lived in a care home and were transferred to the home of a relative shortly before their death, where they received end-of-life care from a GP.

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