Table 3. Effect of baseline characteristics on the subdistribution hazard (SDH) of sepsis within 1 year after cancer diagnosis, based on a competing risk model with death without sepsis treated as the competing risk.

Variable	Fine and Gray model
	SDH (95% CI)	p
Age (years)	1.02 (1.02–1.03)	<0.001
Female gender	0.92 (0.87–0.98)	0.01
Charlson comorbidity index	1.22 (1.19–1.24)	<0.001
Cancer site (reference: digestive)
Genitourinary	0.41 (0.36–0.46)	<0.001
Head and neck	0.67 (0.54–0.83)	<0.001
Hematological malignancy	1.34 (1.22–1.47)	<0.001
Musculoskeletal/breast	0.27 (0.24–0.31)	<0.001
Respiratory	0.81 (0.73–0.90)	<0.001
Metastases at diagnosis	1.65 (1.51–1.79)	<0.001