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Table 1 Characteristics of all patients

From: Going back to home to die: does it make a difference to patient survival?

Item

Home care group (n = 94)

Hospital care group (n = 96)

P

Standardized difference

Gender (n, male/female)

46/48

55/41

0.25

0.17

Age (yr, mean ± SD)

72.7 ± 13.9

69.3 ± 10.9

0.06

0.28

Primary site (n)

  

0.45

 

Lung

12

19

 

0.19

Stomach/esophagus

31

30

 

0.04

Liver/biliary tract/pancreas

25

23

 

0.06

Large intestine

16

9

 

0.23

Breast

2

4

 

0.12

Others

8

11

 

0.10

Performance status (n)

  

0.20

 

0

0

6

 

0.37

1

13

23

 

0.26

2

34

23

 

0.27

3

39

32

 

0.17

4

8

12

 

0.13

Use anti-cancer agents (n, used/unused)a

3/91

3/93

1.00

0.004

  1. aThis is about whether patients used anti-cancer agents or not from 1 month before referral to Palliative Care Team to death.