Table 1.
Clinical Severity by Hospital Characteristics
| Full Sample |
NCI Center |
COC Program |
Procedure Volume Quartile | Bedsize | Teaching Intensity | Advanced Procedures |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No | Yes | No | Yes | Lowest | 2nd | 3rd | Highest | <100 | 100–250 | >250 | None | Minor | Major | No | Yes | ||
| n | 164 | 160 | 4 | 85 | 79 | 41 | 42 | 40 | 41 | 21 | 97 | 46 | 84 | 68 | 12 | 105 | 59 |
| N | 24,618 | 22,778 | 1,840 | 7,453 | 17,165 | 1,601 | 3,595 | 6,179 | 13,243 | 1,033 | 10,888 | 12,697 | 8,386 | 11,932 | 4,300 | 9,785 | 14,833 |
| Age | 68.3 | 68.7 | 63.2 | 69.6 | 67.8 | 71.6 | 70.1 | 69.4 | 66.9 | 68.9 | 69.3 | 67.4 | 70.1 | 68.2 | 65.1 | 69.6 | 67.4 |
| Mean (SD) | (12.2) | (12.2) | (12.1) | (10.6) | (12.3) | (11.9) | (11.9) | (11.8) | (11.8) | (13.3) | (12.0) | (12.2) | (11.9) | (12.2) | (12.2) | (12.0) | (12.3) |
| p | <.0001 | <.0001 | <.0001 | <.0001 | <.0001 | <.0001 | |||||||||||
| Comorbidity | |||||||||||||||||
| None | 86.7 | 87.0 | 82.4 | 86.4 | 86.8 | 84.0 | 87.0 | 87.9 | 86.3 | 83.7 | 87.8 | 86.0 | 87.7 | 87.0 | 84.2 | 87.4 | 86.2 |
| 1 | 4.2 | 3.9 | 7.0 | 4.4 | 4.1 | 4.8 | 3.9 | 3.5 | 4.5 | 6.6 | 3.6 | 4.4 | 3.9 | 4.0 | 5.1 | 3.9 | 4.3 |
| 2 | 3.9 | 3.8 | 4.7 | 4.0 | 3.8 | 3.9 | 3.8 | 3.9 | 3.8 | 3.0 | 3.6 | 4.1 | 3.4 | 3.9 | 4.7 | 3.7 | 3.9 |
| 3 or more | 5.3 | 5.3 | 5.9 | 5.2 | 5.4 | 7.3 | 5.2 | 4.7 | 5.4 | 6.7 | 5.0 | 5.5 | 5.0 | 5.3 | 6.1 | 5.0 | 5.5 |
| p | <.0001 | .52 | <.01 | <.0001 | <.0001 | .08 | |||||||||||
| Atlas ™ Severity Score | |||||||||||||||||
| 0 | 13.5 | 13.5 | 13.6 | 13.2 | 13.6 | 10.4 | 12.3 | 12.3 | 14.7 | 11.7 | 13.4 | 13.7 | 12.3 | 13.8 | 15.1 | 12.8 | 14.0 |
| 1 | 33.9 | 33.5 | 39.0 | 30.5 | 35.3 | 24.9 | 29.0 | 32.6 | 36.9 | 27.0 | 31.6 | 36.4 | 31.2 | 34.4 | 37.5 | 31.2 | 35.6 |
| 2 | 36.0 | 36.1 | 34.7 | 39.6 | 34.5 | 44.2 | 40.5 | 36.9 | 33.5 | 40.7 | 37.3 | 34.6 | 38.2 | 35.0 | 34.7 | 38.7 | 34.3 |
| 3 or 4 | 16.6 | 16.9 | 12.7 | 16.7 | 16.6 | 20.5 | 18.3 | 18.3 | 14.9 | 20.6 | 17.7 | 15.3 | 18.3 | 16.8 | 12.7 | 17.4 | 16.1 |
| p | <.0001 | <.0001 | <.0001 | <.0001 | <.0001 | <.0001 | |||||||||||
| Distant Cancer | 13.2 | 13.2 | 13.2 | 12.3 | 13.6 | 12.6 | 12.4 | 11.9 | 14.1 | 14.0 | 12.7 | 13.6 | 12.2 | 13.1 | 15.5 | 12.7 | 13.5 |
| p | .97 | <.01 | .0001 | .07 | <.0001 | .07 | |||||||||||
NCI: National Cancer Institute Clinical or Comprehensive Cancer Center; COC: Commission on Cancer Approved Cancer Program. p values reported reflect significance test for t or F tests for age by hospital characteristics, or chi-square tests for categorical variables by hospital characteristics.