Table 1

Cohort demographics by end-of-life disease trajectory

	Terminal illness		Organ failure		Frailty		Other		Sudden death		Overall
	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%
Total cohort*	75 657	32	72 363	31	67 513	29	11 784	5	7842	3	235 159	100
Sex
Male	39 125	52	34 371	48	30 703	45	5295	45	4987	64	114 481	49
Female	36 532	48	37 992	53	36 810	55	6489	55	2855	36	120 678	51
Age
<19	172	<1	691	1	47	<1	827	7	435	6	217	1
19–44	1886	2	1601	2	479	1	332	3	2636	34	6934	3
45–54	5454	7	3247	4	1738	3	442	4	1547	20	1242	5
55–64	12 311	16	6631	9	4193	6	730	6	1090	14	24 955	11
65–74	18 042	24	10 885	15	7472	11	1229	10	676	9	38 304	16
75–84	22 790	30	21 447	30	18 990	28	2959	25	780	10	66 966	28
85–94	13 730	18	23 514	32	27 641	41	4257	36	592	8	69 734	30
95+	1272	2	4347	6	6953	10	1008	9	86	1	1366	6
Income†
Lowest	16 014	21	17 288	24	15 637	23	2545	22	2008	26	53 492	23
Low	15 931	21	15 344	21	13 634	20	2317	20	1626	21	48 852	21
Middle	14 698	19	13 727	19	13 059	19	2086	18	1474	19	45 044	19
High	14 621	19	13 074	18	12 884	19	2063	18	1358	17	44 000	19
Highest	13 996	19	12 136	17	11 850	18	1967	17	1258	16	41 207	18
Rurality†
Urban	64 302	85	61 171	85	57 853	86	9752	83	6564	84	199 642	85
Rural	1123	15	1074	15	9558	14	1286	11	1211	15	34 027	14
No. of Chronic Diseases
0	348	<1	2049	3	1649	2	1166	10	1791	23	7003	3
1	6496	9	3732	5	3674	5	672	6	1891	24	16 465	7
2	11 388	15	6463	9	7144	11	1150	10	1358	17	27 503	12
3	14 846	20	9543	13	9710	14	1559	13	1022	13	36 680	16
4	14 238	19	11 296	16	11 059	16	1815	15	674	9	39 082	17
5	11 260	15	11 772	16	10 730	16	1740	15	457	6	35 959	15
6+	17 081	23	27 508	38	23 547	35	3682	31	649	8	72 467	31

↵*Percentages of ‘total cohort’ row represent the proportion of the whole cohort. All other percentages in each descriptive category are representative of the proportion of patients in each category under each trajectory and are not summative across a whole row.
†Does not equal 100 %: a small number of records are missing this information.