Patients | |
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Female gender,% | 69 |
Age at death (mean, SD) | 86.0 (6.3) |
Length of stay in nursing home (mean number of years, SD) | 1.0 (0.7) |
Dementia severity (mean BANS-S score, SD) | |
- at baseline | 14.3 (4.2) |
- at last semi-annual assessment before deathb | 15.7 (4.2) |
Advanced dementia (GDS 7 and (CPS 5 or 6)),% | |
- at baseline | 13 |
- one month before death | 41 |
Families | |
Female gender,% | 64 |
Age at baseline assessment (mean, SD) | 60.3 (11.7) |
Relationship to deceased resident,% | |
- child (including child and legal representative or other combinations) | 59 |
- spouse | 19 |
- other | 22 |
Highest completed education,%c | |
- none or primary/elementary school | 6 |
- (high school preparing for) technical/trade school | 56 |
- high school preparing for BSc or MSc | 10 |
- BSc or MSc degree | 28 |
Physicians (weighted for number of patients they treated) | |
Female gender,% | 61 |
Age at assessment of perception of dementia | 43.1 (8.6) |
Experience as a physician in nursing home (mean number of years, SD) | 11.5 (8.1) |
Full time equivalent (mean, SD) | 0.78 (0.17) |
Outcome and potential confounders c | |
EOLD-CAD score for comfort (mean, SD)d | 34.1 (5.6) |
Assessment of EOLD-CAD by physician (versus nurse under supervision of physician),% | 47 |
Time between patient’s death, mean number of years (SD), and | 0.80 (0.67) |
- baseline assessment (family, and most physician understanding variables) | |
- physician’s assessment of perception of dementia | 0.18 (0.74) |
- death of the first subject in study | 1.93 (0.72) |