Table 2.

Proportion of cancer cases with comorbidity data by cancer type and hospital discharge file

Cancer type	Overall, %	PDD only (1991–2004), %	PDD+ASD+EDD (2005–2013), %	Difference in percent matching by discharge file availability, %a
Corpus uteri	95.9	95.1	96.8	1.8
Gallbladder	95.7	94.8	96.8	1.9
Ovary	95.5	94.7	96.7	1.9
Other digestive organs	95.1	94.0	96.3	2.3
Small intestine	94.9	94.1	95.8	1.6
Stomach	94.1	93.3	95.2	1.9
Kidney and renal pelvis	93.9	93.0	94.7	1.7
Colon	93.1	91.9	95.1	3.3
Pancreas	93.0	91.4	94.8	3.3
Thyroid	92.5	89.9	94.4	4.5
Bones and joints	91.2	89.5	93.5	4.0
Other urinary organs	90.7	86.9	95.7	8.7
Esophagus	89.5	86.2	93.8	7.6
Brain and other nervous system	89.1	89.2	89.0	0.1
Liver and bile duct	89.1	87.6	90.2	2.6
Rectum	88.7	85.5	93.4	7.9
Lung and bronchus	88.4	85.8	92.3	6.5
Uterus, not otherwise specified	86.9	83.2	89.9	6.7
Soft tissue including heart	84.0	76.2	92.9	16.7
Other endocrine	82.3	79.9	83.4	3.5
Other	81.2	78.7	84.4	5.7
Myeloma	77.0	70.9	83.8	12.9
Oral cavity and pharynx	77.0	67.4	89.0	21.6
Urinary bladder	76.6	63.8	93.3	29.5
Breast	75.3	61.3	92.8	31.5
Lymphomas	75.2	65.3	87.6	22.4
Leukemia	74.9	70.9	80.2	9.3
Anus, anal canal, and anorectum	73.5	61.6	82.8	21.2
Other respiratory system	71.4	58.5	92.2	33.7
Testis	71.0	51.9	93.8	41.9
Other female genital organs	69.4	54.7	87.8	33.1
Cervix uteri	67.4	60.8	93.4	32.6
Other male genital organs	64.3	49.9	82.0	32.1
Prostate	62.0	56.4	70.8	14.4
Eye and orbit	59.3	38.2	86.2	47.9
Other nonepithelial skin	58.2	39.5	78.5	39.0
Melanomas – skin	46.7	25.4	66.0	40.7

Note:

^aMay not be equal to Column 3 (PDD+ASD+EDD) - Column 2 (PDD only) due to rounding.

Abbreviations: ASD, ambulatory surgery data; EDD, emergency department data; PDD, patient discharge data.