Table 4.

Factors associated with agreement of treatment plan and claims for treatment

		Systemic therapy only			Radiation only			Surgery only			Watching
ATTRIBUTE	CATEGORY	N	Adjusted PPV* %	p-Value	N	Adjusted PPV* %	p-Value	N	Adjusted PPV* %	p-Value	N	Adjusted PPV* %	p-Value
Overall		2,347	62.0		564	66.0		294	45.6		3,686	74.3
Patient Factors
Age	<=75	1,452	63.1	0.49	327	65.7	0.94	190	51.0	0.005	2,231	74.0	0.31
	>75	895	61.2		237	65.3		104	33.6		1,455	74.7
Performance Status	0	862	58.8	0.03	244	66.0	0.11	153	47.8	0.36	1,690	78.0	<0.0001
	1	1,191	64.0		243	62.0		123	43.3		1,607	70.5
	>=2	294	65.9		77	74.3		18	29.2		389	72.4
Comorbidity	0	1,189	63.5	0.048	254	65.6	0.97	151	47.6	0.58	1,720	76.9	<0.0001
	1 or 2	874	59.4		227	65.3		103	38.5		1,429	73.8
	>= 3	284	66.7		83	66.0		40	49.7		537	66.5
Cancer Factors
Type	Bladder	261	66.7	<0.0001	71	74.6	0.004	50	44.0	0.035	473	74.0	0.0003
	Kidney	222	40.1		48	66.7		51	54.9		529	82.1
	Ovarian	811	65.0		46	67.4		87	57.5		804	72.6
	Pancreas	265	65.3		48	64.6		33	33.3		368	77.0
	Prostate	428	64.7		273	56.0		33	27.3		884	71.9
	SCL	226	64.6		65	78.5		15	33.3		308	73.2
	Stomach	134	51.5		13	38.5		34	35.3		320	68.2
Stage	NED	181	54.9	0.036	95	55.9	0.28	54	47.3	0.52	3,101	75.6	<0.0001
	Local	350	59.4		202	67.7		101	49.0		143	72.3
	Metastatic	1,816	63.7		267	67.8		139	40.5		442	64.9
Provider Factors
Specialty	Medical Onc	1,489	64.9	0.029	149	54.2	<0.0001	127	39.4	0.20	1,796	70.1	<0.0001
	Gyn or Gyn Onc	271	62.3		11	57.1		28	33.5		308	77.2
	Internal Med	115	55.2		17	34.9		20	43.9		368	76.9
	Surgery	40	61.2		13	53.2		38	66.0		116	76.5
	Radiation Onc	75	50.8		241	80.9		11	30.2		270	72.9
	Urology	76	44.2		41	22.1		27	34.2		280	83.5
	Other	357	56.5		133	50.1		65	55.1		548	78.7
Pre-PET Plan	Other Imaging	1,104	61.5	0.044	233	58.7	<0.0001	100	46.5	0.011	2,101	74.1	0.0058
	Treat	811	65.9		255	74.8		122	52.3		584	69.3
	Biopsy	237	58.3		42	58.9		52	32.3		384	77.2
	Watch	195	56.7		34	41.2		20	25.1		617	77.5

NED: No evidence of disease or low probability of local recurrence. Gyn: Gynecology. Med: Medicine. Onc: Oncology. SCL: small cell lung

^*PPV: Adjusted estimates of the PPV were provided on the fitted model assuming that the other factors were fixed at their mean or prevalence in the data set.