Table 2.
Proportions of EP, and sub-types of EP by patients characteristics for patients diagnosed in 2006 and 2013
| 2006 | 2013 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Proportions with EP | Among EP patients | Proportions with EP | Among EP patients | |||||
| GP-led | Patient-led | Other | GP-led | Patient-led | Other | |||
| All patients | 37.9 | 28.3 | 62.1 | 9.5 | 34.3 | 17.0 | 36.4 | 100.0 |
| Sex | ||||||||
| men | 37.1 | 28.1 | 62.4 | 9.6 | 33.7 | 16.1 | 67.0 | 16.9 |
| women | 38.9 | 28.7 | 61.8 | 9.5 | 34.9 | 16.6 | 66.3 | 17.1 |
| Deprivation | ||||||||
| Least deprived | 33.4 | 32.3 | 59.0 | 8.7 | 30.6 | 18.3 | 64.9 | 16.7 |
| dep 2 | 35.2 | 32.5 | 59.1 | 8.4 | 33.6 | 18.7 | 64.6 | 16.7 |
| dep 3 | 37.5 | 30.6 | 61.1 | 8.4 | 34.5 | 17.6 | 66.5 | 15.9 |
| dep 4 | 39.3 | 27.7 | 61.8 | 10.5 | 35.3 | 16.1 | 67.7 | 16.1 |
| Most deprived | 40.9 | 23.3 | 66.1 | 10.6 | 35.6 | 12.9 | 68.1 | 18.9 |
| p-value for trend | < 0.001 | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0.09 | 0.03 | 0.04 | 0.02 | 0.39 |
| TNM stage at diagnosis | ||||||||
| stage I | 16.4 | 21.3 | 58.3 | 20.4 | 17.5 | 11.0 | 52.6 | 36.4 |
| stage II | 14.4 | 26.3 | 53.7 | 20.0 | 18.3 | 10.4 | 58.3 | 31.3 |
| stage III | 24.4 | 27.0 | 59.5 | 13.5 | 23.0 | 14.0 | 63.5 | 22.5 |
| stage IV | 41.7 | 31.6 | 60.3 | 8.1 | 43.8 | 17.5 | 68.6 | 13.9 |
| p-value for trend | 0.11 | 0.03 | 0.48 | 0.04 | 0.13 | 0.08 | < 0.001 | < 0.001 |
| missing stage | 41.1 | 27.6 | 63.2 | 9.2 | 51.0 | 18.0 | 72.0 | 10.0 |