Table 4.

Factors Associated with ERs in Multivariate Logistic Regression Analysis

Factor	Odds Ratio	95% Wald Confidence Limits	P value
Age	0.97	0.93–1.01	0.10
CAGE positivity	3.22	0.66–15.83	0.15
Head and neck cancer	9.15	3.09–27.08	<0.0001
Disease duration	0.999	0.0999–1.000	0.06
Reason for referral
Cancer-related symptoms	0.09	0.03–0.25	<0.0001
Treatment-related symptoms	0.87	0.03–2.36	0.79
Presence of anticancer treatment at the time of referral	1.83	0.76–4.43	0.18

The variables that were significant are bolded.

ER, early referral.