Table 1.

Patient characteristics

^aData associated with first admission or first chemotherapy administration.

^bp-values from analysis of variance and χ² tests comparing the number of patients who experienced chemotherapy-related hospitalizations with the number who did not.

^cIncludes diagnoses that represent at least 5% of the total sample.

^dCurative indicates that the goal of the cancer-directed therapy was cure with chemotherapy as the primary modality of treatment (e.g., Hodgkin's lymphoma, testicular cancer, anal cancer, etc.); adjuvant indicates that the goal of the cancer-directed therapy was cure and either surgery or radiation therapy was the primary modality of treatment; palliative indicates that the goal of the cancer-directed therapy was to improve cancer-related symptoms with or without the expectation of prolongation of life.