Deaths by medical end-of-life decision; age, cause of death

The survey of medical end-of-life decisions, presents information on medical end-of-life decisions by attending physicians. For this survey a random sample is tasks from the central death registry of Statistics Netherlands on persons in the Dutch population register who died in the period August to November in the year concerned. The sample is raised to a figure for the whole year. This table involves deaths by medical end-of-life decisions, cause of death and age. Data available from: 2010, 2015 Status of the figures: All data are definite. Changes as of August 9th 2019: The underlying coding of classifications age and cause of death used in this table has been adjusted. It is now in line with the standard encoding defined by CBS. The structure and data of the table have not been adjusted. When will new figures be published? The survey takes place every five years.