Survey of satisfaction regarding palliative care provided to patients who died at home or in a hospital.

Background: Improvement in quality of life (QoL) of patients is one of the most important goals of palliative care, but evaluation of QoL of patients is difficult.

Aim: To evaluate QoL of patients who died at home or in a hospital.

Methods: We administered the Good Death Inventory (10 core and 8 optional domains) to the bereaved families of patients who died at home or in a hospital.