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Published in final edited form as: J Urol. 2013 May 29;190(5):1698–1703. doi: 10.1016/j.juro.2013.05.051

Table 4.

Propensity Score Adjusted Analysis of Overall Survival with Hazard Ratios and 95% Confidence Intervals

	Propensity Score Adjustment
	Continuous (HR; 95% CI)	Stratified	Categorical
Early Follow-up Care
None	1	1	1
Low Tertile	0.866 (0.679, 1.103)	0.916 (0.712, 1.178)	0.838 (0.657, 1.069)
Middle Tertile	1.064 (0.833, 1.359)	1.126 (0.871, 1.454)	1.035 (0.810, 1.323)
High Tertile	1.144 (0.880, 1.489)	1.177 (0.892, 1.554)	1.104 (0.848, 1.437)
Later Follow-up Care
None	1	1	1
Low Tertile	0.228 (0.150, 0.345)	0.198 (0.127, 0.310)	0.222 (0.147, 0.336)
Middle Tertile	0.265 (0.175, 0.402)	0.225 (0.144, 0.351)	0.256 (0.169, 0.388)
High Tertile	0.468 (0.309, 0.709)	0.423 (0.271, 0.660)	0.452 (0.298, 0.685)