Table 4a.
Cox proportional hazard analysis of factors influencing all-cause mortality for patients with regional disease
| Predictor | Hazard Ratio | 95% Confidence Interval |
P value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lower limit | Upper limit | |||
| Treatment | ||||
| None | (reference) | --- | --- | --- |
| Surgery | 0.13 | 0.04 | 0.37 | 0.0002 |
| S + CRT | 0.15 | 0.04 | 0.61 | 0.0079 |
| Hospital type | ||||
| Private | (reference) | --- | --- | --- |
| Public | 6.26 | 1.18 | 33.1 | 0.0311 |
| Academic | 0.99 | 0.41 | 2.41 | 0.9881 |
| HMO | 0.49 | 0.20 | 1.22 | 0.1234 |
| SES | ||||
| High | (reference) | --- | --- | --- |
| Low | 1.05 | 0.35 | 3.22 | 0.9259 |
| Middle | 1.37 | 0.66 | 2.83 | 0.3960 |
| Age (in 10 years) | 1.32 | 1.03 | 1.71 | 0.0308 |
| Sex | ||||
| Male | (reference) | --- | --- | --- |
| Female | 0.84 | 0.43 | 1.65 | 0.6169 |
| Comorbidity (Charlson Index) | ||||
| 0 | (reference) | --- | --- | --- |
| >0 | 0.66 | 0.30 | 1.46 | 0.3006 |
| Cushing's syndrome | ||||
| No | (reference) | --- | --- | --- |
| Yes | 5.49 | 2.17 | 13.92 | 0.0003 |