Table 1. Demographics details of the study patients.
Demographic category | Patients | Percentage | |
Sex | Male | 6341 | 58.0 |
Female | 4591 | 42.0 | |
Age (years) | 18–29 | 102 | 0.9 |
30–39 | 294 | 2.7 | |
40–49 | 658 | 6.0 | |
50–59 | 1475 | 13.5 | |
60–69 | 2831 | 25.9 | |
70+ | 5572 | 51.0 | |
Ethnicity | White | 9954 | 91.1 |
Asian | 328 | 3.0 | |
Other minority ethnicity | 370 | 3.4 | |
Unknown | 280 | 2.6 | |
Comorbidity score | 0 | 6307 | 57.7 |
1–4 | 1379 | 12.6 | |
5+ | 3246 | 29.7 | |
IMD deprivation quintiles | 1 (most deprived) | 2059 | 18.8 |
2 | 2142 | 19.6 | |
3 | 2221 | 20.3 | |
4 | 2336 | 21.4 | |
5 (least deprived) | 2174 | 19.9 | |
Procedure year | 2010–2011 | 2124 | 19.4 |
2012–2013 | 2224 | 20.3 | |
2014–2015 | 2186 | 20.0 | |
2016–2017 | 2173 | 19.9 | |
2018–2019 | 2225 | 20.4 | |
Medium | 2927 | 26.8 | |
High | 6781 | 62.0 | |
Inpatient/outpatient | Inpatient | 9936 | 90.9 |
Outpatient | 996 | 9.1 | |
Cancer type | Genitourinary | 5812 | 53.2 |
Gynaecological oncology | 2061 | 18.9 | |
Digestive | 1767 | 16.2 | |
Other | 1292 | 11.8 | |
Provider cancer volume tertile | 1–1576 | 1694 | 15.5 |
1577–3079 | 3223 | 29.5 | |
3080+ | 6015 | 55.0 | |
Specialty | Urology | 5106 | 46.7 |
Medicine | 2423 | 22.2 | |
Oncology | 1692 | 15.5 | |
General surgery | 885 | 8.1 | |
Gynaecology/gynaecological oncology | 345 | 3.2 | |
Other | 481 | 4.4 | |
Complications | Bleeding | 885 | 8.1 |
Infection | 729 | 6.7 | |
Exchange/reinsertion of nephrostomy | 1365 | 12.5 | |
Nephrostomy performed at provider with radiotherapy unit | 5511 | 50.4 | |
Mortality 14 days | 717 | 6.6 | |
Mortality 30 days | 1701 | 15.6 | |
Treatment received | Chemotherapy and surgery | 1617 | 14.8 |
Chemotherapy only | 1157 | 10.6 | |
Surgery only | 3172 | 29.0 | |
No chemotherapy or surgery | 4986 | 45.6 | |
Total patients | 10 932 |
IMDIndex of Multiple Deprivation