Table 4b.
Cox proportional hazard analysis of factors influencing all-cause mortality for patients with metastatic disease
| Predictor | Hazard Ratio | 95% Confidence Interval |
P value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lower limit | Upper limit | |||
| Treatment | ||||
| None | (reference) | --- | --- | --- |
| Surgery | 0.52 | 0.28 | 0.97 | 0.0394 |
| CRT | 0.65 | 0.40 | 1.07 | 0.0928 |
| S + CRT | 0.31 | 0.17 | 0.55 | <.0001 |
| Hospital type | ||||
| Private | (reference) | --- | --- | --- |
| Public | 1.15 | 0.34 | 3.84 | 0.8228 |
| Academic | 0.88 | 0.54 | 1.42 | 0.5893 |
| HMO | 0.87 | 0.55 | 1.37 | 0.5388 |
| SES | ||||
| High | (reference) | --- | --- | --- |
| Low | 0.92 | 0.53 | 1.59 | 0.7709 |
| Middle | 1.14 | 0.78 | 1.68 | 0.4920 |
| Age (in 10 years) | 1.12 | 1.00 | 1.24 | 0.0511 |
| Sex | ||||
| Male | (reference) | --- | --- | --- |
| Female | 0.93 | 0.65 | 1.34 | 0.7092 |
| Comorbidity (Charlson Index) | ||||
| 0 | (reference) | --- | --- | --- |
| >0 | 1.02 | 0.69 | 1.50 | 0.9398 |
| Cushing's syndrome | ||||
| No | (reference) | --- | --- | --- |
| Yes | 1.42 | 0.87 | 2.31 | 0.1585 |