Use of specialist palliative care services by country; % (95% CI), n.

<p>CI = confidence interval.</p><p>Percentages are within-country percentages. Percentages are rounded and thus may not add up to 100.</p><p>Missing values: specialist palliative care n = 191 (4.3%).</p><p>Palliative care categories are not mutually exclusive.</p><p>p-values are based on multivariate analyses adjusted for age, sex, cause and place of death.</p><p>Statistically significant in bivariate analysis.</p><p>Palliative care initiative not present in this country.</p><p>Palliative care consultation teams in the Netherlands provide services to people at home and in hospital. Our data do not hold information as to where the patients received this service.</p><p>Comparison between countries not possible.