| |
Entire sample
|
Inhospital death
|
No Inhospital death
|
p-valuec
|
|---|
|
n (%)
|
12,457 (100)
|
6965 (55.9)
|
5492 (44.1)
| |
|
Mean age at death (SD)
|
69.9 (10.0)
|
68.8 (10.0)
|
71.4 (9.9)
|
< 0.0001
|
|
Sex
|
|
Male N (%)
|
8930 (71.7)
|
5070 (72.8)
|
3860 (70.3)
|
0.002
|
|
Survival
|
|
Median survival in months
|
7
|
7
|
8
|
< 0.0001
|
|
Living in a nursing home a (%)
|
958 (7.7)
|
188 (2.7)
|
770 (14.0)
|
< 0.0001
|
|
Care level a
|
|
No care level N (%)
|
4958 (39.8)
|
3769 (54.1)
|
1189 (21.7)
|
< 0.0001
|
|
1 N (%)
|
2451 (19.7)
|
1324 (19.0)
|
1127 (20.5)
|
0.0351
|
|
2 N (%)
|
3416 (27.4)
|
1376 (19.8)
|
2040 (37.1)
|
< 0.0001
|
|
3 N (%)
|
1632 (13.1)
|
496 (7.1)
|
1136 (20.7)
|
< 0.0001
|
|
State
|
|
Western Germany N (%)
|
9724 (78.1)
|
5478 (78.7)
|
4246 (77.3)
|
0.0732
|
|
Urban district b N (%)
|
7829 (62.9)
|
4380 (62.9)
|
3449 (62.8)
|
0.922
|
|
Mean Charlson Comorbidity Score (SD)
|
3.77 (2.65)
|
3.81 (2.66)
|
3.72 (2.63)
|
0.0777
|
|
Body regions with Metastases
|
|
Cerebal N (%)
|
2271 (18.2)
|
1237 (17.8)
|
1034 (18.8)
|
0.1256
|
|
Bones N (%)
|
2845 (22.8)
|
1630 (23.4)
|
1215 (22.1)
|
0.0912
|
|
Thoracic N (%)
|
4207 (33.8)
|
2406 (34.5)
|
1801 (32.8)
|
0.0402
|
- a Data of the last quarter before death were used
- b Urban district is based on the district types defined by the Federal institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development for 2014. Urban district contains district type 1 and 2, the reference category rural district contains district type 3 and 4
- cp-values were calculated with t-test for age at death, Wilcoxon U-test for Charlson Comorbidity Score and Chi2 test for sex, living in a nursing home, care level, state and urban district
