The variables for analysis are the following:

– Number of nursing home visits. – Number of visits to nursing home health clinics. – Number of home visits by the family doctor. – Number of visits to the family doctor’s clinic. – Number of U0126 molecular weight specialist outpatient consultations. – Number of visits to hospital emergency departments. – Number of hospital admissions. – Number of days admitted to hospital. Home hospitalisation A Paclitaxel microtubule formula will be designed Inhibitors,research,lifescience,medical to record the daily activity of Home Hospitalisation professionals during the period of care. Variables to record: – Number of visits by Home Hospitalisation. – Number of calls to Home Hospitalisation. – Grieving process (depending Inhibitors,research,lifescience,medical on the activity undertaken during the period). Number of bereavement support visits. Number of bereavement support calls. SAIATU A model will be designed to record the daily activity of SAIATU professionals, which will allow researchers to keep track of activity during the progression of the disease and throughout the grieving process. Variables to be recorded: – During the progression of the illness: Number of visits by SAIATU. Number of calls from SAIATU. – During the grieving process: Number of bereavement support visits by SAIATU. Number of bereavement support Inhibitors,research,lifescience,medical calls by SAIATU. Costs of care The cost of SAIATU’s activities will be estimated by reference to budgetary information. Cost estimates

for Hospitals, Primary Care, Home Hospitalisation and Palliative Care will be arrived at by multiplying costs by the quantity of resources consumed by each patient. Where budgetary information Inhibitors,research,lifescience,medical about the activities of Hospitals, Primary Care and Home Hospitalisation is available, a calculation will be made multiplying costs by the quantity of resources consumed by each patient. Inhibitors,research,lifescience,medical Secondary variables: – Socio-demographic data. – Place of death: home or hospital. – Level of functional dependency: Karnofsky index

<50. - Characterisation of the principal carer. - Quality of care in Palliative Care, measured according to the Palliative Carfilzomib Outcome Scale and validated in Spanish [27]. Analysis of variables The parameters will be analysed using the statistical software SPSS 15.0 for Windows. A descriptive study will be conducted on the consumption of healthcare resources by subgroup in the last 30 days of life. The descriptive study will include measures of central tendency, confidence intervals at 95% for the population mean, and contingency tables (frequencies) for each of the recorded variables. Each subgroup will be analysed by age, sex, and main diagnosis. For the comparison of proportions, Pearson’s Χ2 test, or, when appropriate, Fisher’s exact test will be used to calculate relative risk (RR), absolute risk reduction (ARR) and the number needed to treat (NNT) with 95% confidence interval.