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. 2021 May 10;6(3):100147. doi: 10.1016/j.esmoop.2021.100147

Table 3.

Results—pattern characteristics and comparison 2006-2009/2016

Samples
ONC pattern
PALL pattern
SEG pattern
CONC pattern
2006 2016 2006 2016 2006 2016 2006 2016 2006 2016
n (% of sample) 345 64 70 (20) 5 (8) 155 (45) 21 (33) 57 (17) 9 (14) 63 (18) 29 (45)
Age (years)
 Mean ± SD 65 ± 13 64 ± 14 64 ± 11 58 ± 17 66 ± 13 65 ± 16 62 ± 13 68 ± 12 60 ± 12 66 ± 14
 Median 65 64 63 55 67 69 63 71 62 63
 Range 20-91 36-92 38-82 37-79 20-91 40-90 27-84 52-88 23-85 35-92
 Male (%) 64 45 64 20 65 52 72 33 57 48
Tumor type, n (% of sample)
 Gastrointestinal 115 (33) 9 (14) 23 (20) 0 53 (46) 2 (10) 20 (17) 2 (22) 19 (17) 5 (17)
 Thoracic 63 (18) 20 (30) 15 (23) 2 (40) 28 (44) 5 (24) 13 (21) 5 (56) 7 (11) 8 (28)
 Genitourinary 49 (14) 6 (9) 10 (20) 0 16 (33) 2 (10) 11 (23) 1 (11) 12 (25) 3 (10)
 Ear, nose and throat 41 (12) 10 (16) 3 (7) 0 24 (59) 3 (14) 3 (7) 1 (11) 11 (27) 6 (21)
 Gynecological 30 (9) 6 (9) 10 (33) 2 (40) 11 (37) 4 (19) 4 (13) 0 5 (17) 0
 Hematological 11 (3) 6 (9) 3 (27) 0 3 (27) 1 (5) 3 (27) 0 2 (18) 5 (17)
 Other 36 (10) 7 (11) 6 (17) 1 (20) 20 (56) 4 (19) 3 (8) 0 7 (19) 2 (7)
Joint palliative-oncology visits
 Patients with ≥1 joint visits, n (%) 83 (24) 31 (48) 17 (24) 3 (60) 14 (9) 3 (14) 24 (42) 3 (33) 28 (44) 22 (76)
 Mean number of joint visits 1.27 1.84 1.0 1.3 1.0 1.3 1.3 1.3 1.6 2.0
Months from first palliative outpatient consultation until death occurred
n n = 345 n = 14 n = 70 n = 0 n = 155 n = 7 n = 57 n = 2 n = 63 n = 5
Mean 7.63 2.83 9.04 N/A 4.44 2.52 8.84 1.02 12.85 3.98
Median 4.5 1.95 4.92 N/A 2.17 1.23 6.00 1.02 12.30 3.97
Range 0.06-39.67 0.53-8.00 0.06-39.67 N/A 0.06-37.63 0.53-5.27 0.27-35.1 0.73-1.30 1.60-36.23 0.70-8.00

CONC pattern, concurrent integrated care pattern; ONC pattern, oncology-led pattern; PALL pattern, palliative care-led pattern; SEG pattern, segmented integrated care pattern.