Table 4.

Patient Factors Associated With Inpatient Mortality During a Primary Cancer-Related Hospitalization

Factor	OR*	95% CI	P Value
Female	0.89	0.85–0.93	<.001
Heart failure	1.12	1.04–1.20	.002
Cancer type
Thyroid	ref.
Head and neck	1.71	1.05–2.78	.032
GI (esophagus, stomach, colon, rectum and anus, liver, pancreas, other GI organs)	2.52	1.60–3.97	<.001
Lung (bronchus lung, other respiratory)	4.67	2.96–7.37	<.001
Breast	3.74	2.35–5.97	<.001
Uterine (uterus, cervix, ovary, other female genital organs)	2.03	1.27–3.25	.003
Male genital (testicular and other male genital)	1.78	1.08–2.93	.023
Renal (kidney and other urinary)	1.13	0.69–1.83	.631
Bladder	1.55	0.96–2.51	.075
Hodgkin lymphoma	2.87	1.60–5.15	<.001
Non-Hodgkin lymphoma	3.72	2.35–5.89	<.001
Leukemia	7.53	4.79–11.86	<.001
Multiple myeloma	3.14	1.94–5.08	.004
CNS	2.03	1.25–3.30	<.001
Melanoma	5.66	3.16–10.12	<.001
Other	3.43	2.18–5.39	<.001

CI, confidence interval; CNS, central nervous system; GI, gastrointestinal; OR, odds ratio.

^*Adjusted for age and Elixhauser comorbidity scores using multivariable fractional polynomials, as well as race, insurance payer, and median house income.