Table 1.

Patient Baseline Demographic and Clinical Characteristics

Characteristic	Hospitalist Led (n = 421)		Oncologist Led (n = 408)		P
	No.	%	No.	%
Age, years					1
Mean	62		62
SD	14		14
Female sex	191	45	176	43	.52
Race
White	301	71	280	69	.37
Black	54	13	58	14	.56
Asian	39	9	48	12	.24
Refused	18	4	16	4	.80
Other	9	2	6	0.9	.47
Primary cancer type
Pancreatic	99	24	103	25	.56
Colon	69	16	81	20	.20
Stomach	42	10	49	12	.35
Multiple primaries	48	11	42	10	.41
Liver	41	10	37	9	.53
Rectal	35	8	30	7	.44
Metastatic cancer	379	90	367	90	.97
Charlson comorbidity index score					.86
Mean	9.5		9.5
SD	2.6		2.4

Abbreviation: SD, standard deviation.