Predicted mean length of stay for overnight acute care hospital admissions for each underlying cause of death by periods of time receiving and not receiving community-based palliative care.

<p>Periods of time receiving community-based palliative care (dashed line) and periods of time not receiving community-based palliative care (solid line) over the last year of life. Estimates predicted from regression model depicted in <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0185275#pone.0185275.t003" target="_blank">Table 3</a> plus the inclusion of significant interaction terms between community-based palliative care, closeness to time of death and cause of death. 95% confidence intervals around mean lengths of stay are indicated by shading. Closeness to death in days was entered in the model as the two terms created from a (3, 3) fractional polynomial transformation. Decedents with Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease had insufficient data to make a meaningful plot. The number of decedents enrolled in community-based palliative care at 365, 270, 180, 90 and 1 days before death are indicated on the graphs.</p

The mean and median number of overnight acute care hospital stays and the mean and median length of stay in the last year of life by decedent factors (n = 12,763).

<p>The mean and median number of overnight acute care hospital stays and the mean and median length of stay in the last year of life by decedent factors (n = 12,763).</p

Adjusted relative hazard (rate) of overnight acute care hospital admissions during periods of time receiving community-based palliative care over the last year of life compared to periods of time not receiving community-based palliative care.

<p>A) Hazard rate (HR) averaged over all age groups (thick black line) with 95% confidence interval (CI) indicated by shading. The time at which the upper 95% CI drops below the referent line and the time at which the HR reduction becomes more rapid are indicated by dotted grey lines. B) HR (without 95%CI shading) for each age group as indicated by legend. Referent line shown at HR of 1 represents periods of time not receiving community-based palliative care.</p

Decedent health and sociodemographic factors associated with variation in the rate of overnight acute care admissions in the last year of life estimated from a multivariate time-to-event model with time varying covariates and time-dependent effects (N = 12,763 decedents).

<p>Decedent health and sociodemographic factors associated with variation in the rate of overnight acute care admissions in the last year of life estimated from a multivariate time-to-event model with time varying covariates and time-dependent effects (N = 12,763 decedents).</p

Mental health diagnoses in women who remained nulliparous after infertility treatment and IVF.

<p>* ICD-9 codes apply to admissions up to 30 June 1999 and ICD-10 codes apply to admissions thereafter.</p><p>† It was not possible to report numbers of admissions separately for women who did and did not have IVF due to confidentiality requirements as totals were less than 10 in some categories.</p><p>Mental health diagnoses in women who remained nulliparous after infertility treatment and IVF.</p

Characteristics of the study population.^*

<p>* The study population includes all women commencing hospital investigation and treatment for infertility between 1982 and 2002 when they were 20–44 years of age who did not have a recorded birth at the end of follow-up and did not have a hospital mental health admission before their first infertility admission. Information on exposures and outcomes was collected over a period of 30 years, from 1980 to 2010.</p><p>† All means reported ± SD.</p><p>Characteristics of the study population.^{<a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0120076#t001fn001" target="_blank">*</a>}</p