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

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