A population-based study of patients in Danish hospitals who are in their last year of life.

Little is known about the prevalence and distribution in Denmark of hospital inpatients who are in their last year of life. Knowledge about these patients could attract attention towards needs for their identification and for optimisation of end-of-life care initiatives. The aims of this study were to determine the proportion of prevalent in-patients who died during the following 12 months, to present characteristics among deceased and...