Table 4.

Rate of pathway alignment for each of the OCP phases as grouped for analysis. P-values were extracted from multivariable logistic regression.

Characteristic		Alignment with OCP (%)
		Prevention and early detection phase(n = 13,539)	Diagnosis and treatment phase(n = 10,807)	End of life phasea(n = 4278)
Age	Under 50	80% < 0.001b	53% < 0.001b	54% 0.50b
	50-59	84%	50%	52%
	60–69	89%	49%	46%
	70–74	94%	45%	47%
	75–79	94%	44%	50%
	80–84	89%	40%	48%
	85 +	75%	29%	45%
Sex	Male	86% 0.001	44% 0.15	46% 0.001
	Female	88%	45%	51%
Charlson Comorbidity Index	Zero At least one	88% 0.005 89%	47% < 0.001 31%	49% 0.44 48%
Socio-economic status (SEIFA)	(Most disadvantaged) 1	87% 0.33c	39% < 0.001c	50% 0.033c
	2	87%	42%	47%
	3	87%	42%	48%
	4	88%	46%	48%
	(Least disadvantaged) 5	85%	51%	44%
Remoteness	Major cities	87% 0.08c	47% < 0.001c	50% 0.004c
	Inner regional	86%	39%	43%
	Outer regional	87%	26%	46%

Abbreviations: SEIFA - Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas as described by the Index of Relative Socio-Economic Disadvantage (IRSD) based on the Statistical Area 1 of the address at the time of cancer diagnosis.

^aOCP aligned if no chemotherapy in last 30 days of life and palliative care in the last six months of life.

^bTest for quadratic trend.

^cTest for linear trend.