Table 1.

Background characteristics of the included patients

Characteristics	N = 208
Gender, in number (%)
Male/female	103 (49.5)/105 (50.5)
Age, in years
Median (IQR)	76 (63–83)
Duration of admission, in days
Median (IQR)	11 (5–29)
Primary diagnosis, in number (%)
Neoplasm	185 (88.9)
Digestive organs	50 (27.0)
Respiratory and intra-thoracic organs	47 (25.4)
Breast	13 (7.0)
Urinary tract	12 (6.5)
Unspecified or unknown sites	12 (6.5)
Lymphoid, hematopoietic and related tissue	10 (5.4)
Eye, brain and other parts of central nervous system	9 (4.9)
Male genital organs	8 (4.3)
Other	24 (13.0)
Disease of circulatory system	11 (5.3)
Other	12 (5.8)
Co-morbid conditions, in number
Median (IQR)	2 (1–4)