Characteristics of all deaths and of illness groups considered as indicators for potential benefit of palliative care use (weighted %).

Percentages are weighted for representativeness.Percentages are column percentages.*Other illnesses within palliative subset: Causes of death from benign neoplasm, in situ neoplasms or neoplasms of uncertain or unknown behaviour (n = 50), Parkinson’s disease (n = 29), Motor neurone disease (n = 22), HIV/aids (n = 3).†Pearson χ2 test testing for differences between the four causes of death: cancer, organ failure, dementia and other illnesses. All p-values were Characteristics of all deaths and of illness groups considered as indicators for potential benefit of palliative care use (weighted %).