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Table 1 Baseline characteristics of study patients

From: Drug landscape in patients receiving general outpatient palliative care in Germany: results from a retrospective analysis of 10,464 patients

Patient group

N (%)

Total

10,464

Age (mean, SD)

73.2 (12.6)

Age group

Age 18–50

480 (4.6)

Age 51–60

1319 (12.6)

Age 61–70

2216 (21.2)

Age 71–80

3010 (28.8)

Age > 80

3439 (32.9)

Sex

Women

5229 (50.0)

Men

5235 (50.0)

Cancer site

Digestive organ cancer

2848 (27.2)

Respiratory organ cancer

1846 (17.6)

Breast cancer

1412 (13.5)

Prostate cancer

774 (7.4)

Lymphoid and hematopoietic tissue cancer

1161 (11.1)

All other cancers

2423 (23.1)