[Intensive care patients who want to die at home: how can we fulfil this last wish?].

Objective: To make an inventory of the number of intensive care (ICU) patients per year in the Netherlands who have been discharged home to die, and the conditions under which this does or should take place.

Design: Descriptive, survey study.

Method: A survey was conducted across all ICU departments in the Netherlands in the spring of 2012.