Table III.

Correlation of established indicators and pilot performance indicator with pediatric sarcoma outcomes in the six countries with outcomes data (analysis excludes Dominican Republic)

	Treatment abandonment* Pearson		Obs./Exp. Rate for sarcomas Spearman		Abandonment-sensitive OS* Spearman
	r	p	R	p	r	p
Health expenditure per capita (current US$)	−0.86	0.03	0.94	0.005	0.55	0.25
Gross national income, per capita	−0.74	0.09	0.89	0.02	0.20	0.70
Mortality rate, under-5 (per 1,000)	0.56	0.20	0.89	0.02	−0.80	0.05
Life expectancy at birth, total (years)	−0.93	0.007	0.67	0.15	0.62	0.19
Literacy rate, adult total (% of people ages 15 and above)*	−0.74	0.09	0.93	0.008	0.49	0.33
Human Development Index	−0.66	0.15	0.89	0.02	0.44	0.38
Prevalence of undernourishment (% of population)	0.35	0.50	−0.77	0.07	−0.72	0.10
Deaths among <5y due to diarrheal illness (%)	0.45	0.37	−0.77	0.07	−0.67	0.13
Poverty gap at $2 a day (PPP) (%)	0.53	0.28	−0.83	0.04	−0.63	0.18
Vulnerable employment, total (% of total employment)	0.78	0.07	−0.81	0.05	−0.69	0.12
Out-of-pocket health expenditure (% of total expenditure on health)	0.52	0.29	−0.88	0.02	−0.29	0.57
Economically active children, total (% of children 7-14y)	0.21	0.69	−0.89	0.02	−0.32	0.53
Pilot Performance Index score (%)	−0.20	0.70	0.37	0.48	0.94	0.005
Human Resources score	NA	NA	NA	NA	0.98	0.0003
Communication score	NA	NA	NA	NA	0.41	0.42
Quality of care score	NA	NA	NA	NA	0.62	0.19
Supportive care score	NA	NA	NA	NA	0.93	0.008
Diagnostics score	NA	NA	NA	NA	0.78	0.07
Therapeutics score	NA	NA	NA	NA	0.35	0.49

^*Treatment abandonment rates improved over time, therefore rates from 2005-2009 were used in correlations. AOS did not improve over time and therefore rates for 2000-2009 were used for analysis (see methods).