Table 5.

Change in Treatment and Survival: Above vs. Below Median Age Patients

	Above Median Age Patients			Below Median Age Patients
	Mean Prior to Jan 2005	+/− 11 Months	+/− 9 Months	Mean Prior to Jan 2005	+/− 11 Months	+/− 9 Months
Share of Patients Receiving Chemotherapy Treatment within 1 month…
In Physician’s office	0.094	0.014 (0.002)	0.016 (0.002)	0.164	0.024 (0.004)	0.023 (0.004)
In Physician’s Office excl. Carboplatin	0.039	0.013 (0.002)	0.014 (0.002)	0.065	0.019 (0.002)	0.017 (0.002)
In outpatient hospital	0.018	−0.001 (0.001)	−0.001 (0.001)	0.036	0.003 (0.001)	0.004 (0.002)
All settings	0.119	0.014 (0.002)	0.014 (0.003)	0.210	0.024 (0.003)	0.020 (.003)
Share of Patients Dying Within…
3 months of diagnosis	0.397	−0.023 (0.006)	−0.024 (0.005)	0.285	−0.0059 (0.0035)	−0.0063 (0.0036)
6 months of diagnosis	0.530	−0.029 (0.004)	−0.032 (0.005)	0.411	−0.015 (0.002)	−0.020 (0.0023)
9 months of diagnosis	0.588	−0.026 (0.003)	−0.031 (0.004)	0.470	−0.012 (0.003)	−0.017 (0.003)
1 year of diagnosis	0. 675	−0.015 (0.002)	−0.018 (0.003)	0.567	0.002 (0.003)	−0.006 (0.0038)
Observations (weeks)	48	96	72	48	96	72

Notes: Means in column 1 and 4 are for the dependent variable for patients above versus below the median age patient at diagnosis in the period prior to the reform, Feb–Nov 2004. See notes to Table 3 for other details.