Use of palliative care provided GPs and use of and number of days in specialist palliative care in the last three months of life; % (95% CI), n.

IQR = inter-quartile range; CI = confidence interval.Percentages are within-country percentages. Percentages are rounded and thus may not add up to 100.Missing values: SPC n = 191 (4.3%); time of initiation of SPC n = 174 (3.9% of those who received SPC); palliative care by GP n = 55 (1.2%).Palliative care categories are not mutually exclusive.p-values based on multivariate analyses adjusted for age, sex, cause and place of death.Kruskal-Wallis test (bivariate analysis).