Table 2.
The risks of suicide and accident death among patients who underwent different surgery for malignant bone tumors.
| Surgery | No. of Patients | Suicides |
Accident deaths |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. of deaths | Mortality rate† | SMR (95%CI) | No. of deaths | Mortality rate† | SMR (95%CI) | ||
| Amputation | 5324 | 18 | 50.05 | 5.47 (3.45–8.68) | 23 | 63.95 | 2.40 (1.60–3.61) |
| Limb Salvage | 27,062 | 41 | 19.58 | 2.18 (1.60–2.96) | 134 | 64.00 | 2.53 (2.14–3.00) |
| Surgery, NOS | 5730 | 26 | 30.99 | 2.37 (1.61–3.48) | 50 | 59.59 | 1.64 (1.25–2.17) |
Abbreviations: SMR, standardized mortality ratio; CI, confidence intervals.
†
Per 100,000 person-years.