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. 2011 Sep 13;16(10):1403–1412. doi: 10.1634/theoncologist.2010-0433

Table 1.

Baseline characteristics of patients receiving active oncological treatment or supportive care only

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Data shown as n (%) unless otherwise specified.

Because of missing follow-up, we were unable to classify treatment in five patients.

a Adjusted for age and sex; p-value is considered significant at < .05 (in bold).

b Tumor-related causes for admission were asymptomatic jaundice or cholangitis (n = 32), hemorrhage or anemia (n = 31), aspecific malaise (n = 38), obstruction (n = 26), dyspnea (n = 10), and pain (n = 12).

c Treatment-related causes for acute admission were chemotherapy-related complications (n = 33), radiotherapy-related complications (n = 6), complications from a diagnostic procedure (n = 2), and complications from a therapeutic surgical procedure (n = 8).

Abbreviations: AMC, Academic Medical Center; DEFENCE, Development of strategies Enabling Frail Elderly New Complications to Evade; SD, standard deviation; UMCU, University Medical Center Utrecht.