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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Leuk Lymphoma. 2016 Jan 4;57(7):1567–1574. doi: 10.3109/10428194.2015.1088652

Table I.

Frequency (%) of baseline demographic and clinical characteristics for the overall study population and by discharge status for Induction II.

Overall population (N = 153) Induction II (n = 145)
Early discharge (n = 15) Non-early discharge (n = 130) p-value*
Patient sex
 Female 84 (54.9) 10 (66.7) 70 (53.8) 0.34
 Male 69 (45.1) 5 (33.3) 60 (46.2)
Patient age
 < 1 year 19 (12.4) 0 (0) 16 (12.3) 0.26
 1–< 5 years 39 (25.5) 3 (20.0) 34 (26.2)
 5–< 10 years 28 (18.3) 6 (40.0) 22 (16.9)
 10–515 years 45 (29.4) 4 (26.7) 39 (30.0)
 15 + years 22 (14.4) 2 (13.3) 19 (14.6)
Patient race
 White 108 (70.6) 12 (80.0) 90 (69.2) 0.20
 Black 28 (18.3) 1 (6.7) 26 (20.0)
 Other 7 (4.6) 2 (13.3) 5 (3.8)
 Unknown 10 (6.5) 0 (0) 9 (6.9)
Patient ethnicity
 Hispanic or Latino 27 (17.6) 1 (6.7) 26 (20.0) 0.28
 Not Hispanic or Latino 121 (79.1) 13 (86.7) 100 (76.9)
 Unknown 5 (3.3) 1 (6.7) 4 (3.1)
Insurance status
 Private or self-pay 81 (52.9) 6 (40.0) 68 (52.3) 0.64
 Medicaid or Medicare 40 (26.1) 6 (40.0) 34 (26.2)
 Other 3 (2.0) 0 (0) 3 (2.3)
 Unknown 29 (19.0) 3 (20.0) 25 (19.2)
Risk class
 High 19 (12.4) 1 (6.7) 15 (11.5) 0.67
 Intermediate 106 (69.3) 10 (66.7) 93 (71.5)
 Low 28 (18.3) 4 (26.7) 22 (16.9)
Treatment regimen
 Standard 76 (49.7) 8 (53.3) 64 (49.2) 0.76
 Standard + Gemtuzumab 77 (50.3) 7 (46.7) 66 (50.8)

Data are presented for Induction II. There were no differences in results for Intensification I–III. See Supplemental Table II for these results.

N, number of early discharge eligible patients; n, number of patients within each exposure group, early discharge or non-early discharge; Early discharge, discharge within 4 days after the last chemotherapy administration within the course.

*

p-values from Chi-square or exact test comparing the distribution of covariates among the early discharge group vs non-early discharge group.