Place of death in populations potentially benefiting from palliative care: a population-level study in 14 countries

Background The majority of people dying from chronic diseases prefer to die at home, yet many die in hospitals. Cross-national population-level studies on the place of death are scarce although they can provide important evidence to guide the development and evaluation of public health policies for end-of-life care. We compared the place of death of populations potentially benefiting from palliative care in nine European and five non-European countries, and examined to what extent country-variation in …