Shaping healthcare-seeking processes during fatal illness in resource-poor settings. A study in Lao PDR

Table 2 Type of treatment prior to death

Type of treatment prior to death	Number of deaths
No treatment	1
Traditional medicine only	5
Self-treatment with biomedicine	5
Biomedical healthcare during last month	4
Biomedical healthcare during last week	2
Biomedical healthcare immediately prior to death	9
Total	26

Biomedical health care includes treatment by all types of providers trained by the Ministry of Health; Trained Birth Attendants, Village Health Volunteers, nurses and medical doctors.
Immediately prior to death is defined as patients who died at a health facility, in the presence of a Village Health Worker/nurse in the home, or died on the way home from a health facility a few hours after leaving.

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