Fig 1.
Flowchart of case selection Percentages refer to all deaths registered by the Swedish National Board for Health and Welfare, age >18, for the specified cause of death.
Table 1.
Demographical variables.
Table 2.
Place of death and access to specialized palliative care.
Fig 2.
Deaths in SPC unit or emergency hospital
Specialized palliative care = Hospice/ palliative in-patient care OR Own home with support of specialized palliative team.
Fig 3.
Trends over time;3a: SPC access, 3b: Deaths in emergency hospital.
Table 3.
Place of death and SPC access by main hematological diagnoses.
Table 4.
End-of-life care quality indicators.
Table 5.
Symptoms and symptom relief.
Fig 4.
Lollipop plot of symptoms by hematological diagnosis.
Frequency of symptoms reported during the last week of life, by hematological diagnosis. *NOS = hematological malignancy, not otherwise specified.
Fig 5.
Association of HM with palliative care quality indicators.
Forest plot with OR for HM as cause of death, with and without adjustment for SPC access.
Fig 6.
Association of place of death with palliative care quality indicators.
Forest plot with OR for Hospital as place of death, and for SPC access, respectively.