Table 2.
Baseline characteristics of patients referred by GPs to the panel of blood tests as part of the triage function (n = 1499)
| Patients diagnosed with cancer (n = 183, 12.2%) |
Patients not diagnosed with cancer (n = 1316, 87.8%) |
p-value | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Age, years | |||
| median (IQI) | 71 (66–77) | 65 (54–75) | <0.001a |
| Gender, n (%) | |||
| Male | 108 (59.0) | 606 (46.0) | <0.001b |
| Female | 75 (41.0) | 710 (54.0) | |
| Number of valid blood test results (median (IQI)) | |||
| Men | 27 (25–27) | 26 (25–27) | 0.110a |
| Women | 26 (24–26) | 25 (24–26) | 0.392a |
aWilcoxon rank sum test
bChi-squared test