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Table 2 Overview of characteristics of the cohort undergoing structured judgement review, divided according to place of death

From: Consequences of the emergency response to COVID-19: a whole health care system review in a single city in the United Kingdom

 

Place of death

Care home

Own home

Hospital

Other

Number of cases (% of total)

190 (36)

120a (23)

197 (38)

15b (3)

Co-morbid features:

 Age (year, mean ± SD)

85 ± 8

74 ± 14

75 ± 12

69 ± 17

 Male gender (%)

38

53

58

60

 Diabetes (%)

22

26

25

13

 Chronic kidney disease (%)

19

18

22

13

 Respiratory (%)

20

40

39

32

 Cardiovascular (%)

59

71

66

47

 BMI (kg/m2, mean ± SD)

22 ± 5

25 ± 8

28 ± 8

27 ± 9

 uDNAR or EoL (%)

97

63

71

80

Ethnicity (%):

 Caucasian

81

68

87

93

 Asian

0

1

1

0

 Black

1

2

3

0

 Other BAME

18

29

10

7

Usual residence (%):

 Own home

2

75

53

73

 Nursing Home

72

1

9

0

 Residential Home

20

0

5

0

 Other

6

24

34

27

Medical contact prior to death (%):

 Primary care

96

89

62

80

 111

13

10

11

67

 999

23

26

86

47

 Emergency Departmentc

15

61

19

33

1a listed Cause of death (%):

 COVID-19

54

59

6

13

 Acute respiratory, other

23

29

18

7

 Acute cardiovascular

2

10

15

0

 Cancer

7

11

45

73

 Other chronic disease

71

65

42

27

 Other acute cause

2

12

5

7

Avoidability of death score (count)

 1

 2

2

 3

2

2

10

 4

4

7

16

 5

51

19

56

1

 6

133

92a

113

14

  1. Key: SD standard deviation, BMI body mass index, uDNAR unified do not resuscitation document, EoL end of life. a this value includes 8 cases of sudden death of unknown cause so no score could be appropriately allocated. b 14 of 15 were deaths in a hospice. c indicates hospital visit separate to final admission