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Table 1 Patient characteristics in the elderly and non-elderly cohorts

From: Identifying patterns of care for elderly patients with non-surgically treated stage III non-small cell lung cancer: an analysis of the national cancer database

Characteristic

Elderly (N = 57602)

Non-Elderly (N = 55928)

P-value

Age, mean (SD), years

77.5 (5.3)

60.2 (7.0)

N/A

Gender

  

< 0.0001

 Female

26217 (45.5)

24050 (43.0)

 

 Male

31385 (54.5)

31878 (57.0)

 

Race

  

< 0.0001

 White

50439 (87.6)

45708 (81.7)

 

 Non-white

7163 (12.4)

10220 (18.3)

 

Charlson-Deyo score

  

< 0.0001

 0

33237 (57.7)

35177 (62.9)

 

 1–2

24365 (42.3)

20751 (37.1)

 

Median income

  

< 0.0001

 ≥$48,000

26397 (45.8)

28604 (51.1)

 

 <$48,000

31205 (54.2)

27324 (48.9)

 

Primary payor

  

< 0.0001

 Private

5562 (9.7)

25033 (44.8)

 

 Non-private

52040 (90.3)

30895 (55.2)

 

County Location

  

< 0.0001

 Metropolitan

47064 (81.7)

44545 (79.7)

 

 Non-metropolitan

10538 (18.3)

11383 (20.3)

 

Distance to closest facility, mean (SD), miles

20.2 (78.4)

23.0 (81.0)

< 0.0001

Facility type

  

< 0.0001

 Academic

14682 (25.5)

16929 (30.3)

 

 Non-academic

42920 (74.5)

38999 (69.7)

 

Clinical stage group

  

< 0.0001

 IIIA

31973 (55.5)

27974 (50.0)

 

 IIIB

25629 (44.5)

27954 (50.0)

 
  1. Abbreviation: SD standard deviation