Table 1 Participants’ sociodemographic and clinical characteristics (n = 14,363)
Factor | n% (14,363) | Relaxed rule-based criteria | Strict rule-based criteria | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
No | Yes | p-value | No | Yes | p-value | ||
Age | 0.017 | < 0.001 | |||||
< 65 | 9531 (66.4) | 6852 (66.8) | 2119 (64.2) | 7751 (66.7) | 990 (62.1) | ||
≥ 65 | 4832 (33.6) | 3398 (33.2) | 1163 (35.4) | 3876 (33.3) | 603 (37.9) | ||
Sex | < 0.001 | 0.005 | |||||
Female | 7742 (53.9) | 5735 (56) | 1556 (47.4) | 6375 (54.8) | 814 (51.1) | ||
Male | 6621 (46.1) | 4515 (44) | 1726 (52.6) | 5252 (45.2) | 779 (48.9) | ||
Religion | 0.783 | 0.056 | |||||
Buddhist | 12,236 (85.2) | 8738 (85.2) | 2782 (84.8) | 9934 (85.4) | 1325 (83.2) | ||
Islam | 2058 (14.3) | 1463 (14.3) | 483 (14.7) | 1637 (14.1) | 260 (16.3) | ||
Other | 69 (0.5) | 49 (0.5) | 17 (0.5) | 56 (0.5) | 8 (0.5) | ||
Stage | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | |||||
1 | 1828 (12.7) | 1532(20.2) | 204 (8.4) | 1626 (18.9) | 87 (7.8) | ||
2 | 2163 (15.1) | 1705(22.5) | 331(13.6) | 1850 (21.5) | 156 (14) | ||
3 | 2822 (19.6) | 2108(27.8) | 570 (23.5) | 2373 (27.5) | 231 (20.8) | ||
4 | 3714 (26.6) | 2242 (29.6) | 1324 (54.5) | 2766 (32.1) | 639 (57.4) | ||
Disease site | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | |||||
Breast | 1710 (11.9) | 1323(12.9) | 282 (8.6) | 1437 (12.4) | 159 (10) | ||
Endocrine | 510 (3.6) | 366 (3.6) | 78 (2.4) | 405 (3.5) | 33 (2.1) | ||
Gastrointestinal | 3786 (26.4) | 2748 (26.8) | 725 (22.1) | 3102 (26.7) | 304 (19.1) | ||
Gynecological | 2538 (17.7) | 2007 (19.6) | 420 (12.8) | 2218 (19.1) | 176 (11) | ||
Hematological | 1007 (7.0) | 661 (6.4) | 324 (9.9) | 782 (6.7) | 194 (12.2) | ||
Head and neck | 1426 (9.9) | 975 (9.5) | 383 (11.7) | 1120 (9.6) | 97 (6.1) | ||
Male genitals | 659 (4.6) | 542 (5.3) | 75 (2.3) | 576 (5) | 38 (2.4) | ||
Mesothelial and soft tissue | 258 (1.8) | 174 (1.7) | 78 (2.4) | 209 (1.8) | 41 (2.6) | ||
Other | 294 (2.0) | 126 (1.2) | 159 (4.8) | 149 (1.3) | 125 (7.8) | ||
Respiratory and intrathoracic organs | 1275 (8.9) | 664 (6.3) | 593 (18.1) | 287 (2.5) | 63 (4) | ||
Skin | 367 (2.6) | 261 (2.5) | 94 (2.9) | 453 (3.9) | 38 (2.4) | ||
Urinary tract | 533 (3.7) | 423 (4.1) | 71 (2.2) | ||||
Pain | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | |||||
No | 5317 (51.9) | 948 (28.9) | 5648 (48.6) | 510 (32) | |||
Yes | 4933 (48.1) | 2334 (71.1) | 5979 (51.4) | 1083 (68) | |||
Dyspnea | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | |||||
No | 9167 (89.4) | 2050 (62.5) | 9964 (85.7) | 964 (60.5) | |||
Yes | 1083 (10.6) | 1232 (37.5) | 1663 (14.3) | 629 (39.5) | |||
Edema | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | |||||
No | 9766 (95.3) | 2886 (87.9) | 10,983 (94.5) | 1370 (86) | |||
Yes | 484 (4.7) | 396 (12.1) | 644 (5.5) | 223 (14) | |||
Delirium | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | |||||
No | 10,216 (99.7) | 3230 (98.4) | 11,581 (99.6) | 1554 (97.6) | |||
Yes | 34 (0.3) | 52 (1.6) | 46 (0.4) | 39 (2.4) | |||
Xerostomia | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | |||||
No | 10,143 (99) | 3168 (96.5) | 11,490 (98.8) | 1510 (94.8) | |||
Yes | 107 (1) | 114 (3.5) | 137 (1.2) | 83 (5.2) | |||
Ascites | 0.103 | 0.033 | |||||
No | 9296 (90.7) | 2945 (89.7) | 10,531 (90.6) | 1416 (88.9) | |||
Yes | 954 (9.3) | 337 (10.3) | 1096 (9.4) | 177 (11.1) | |||
Dysphagia | < 0.001 | 0.035 | |||||
No | 9698 (94.6) | 2904 (88.5) | 10,836 (93.2) | 1507 (94.6) | |||
Yes | 552 (5.4) | 378 (11.5) | 791 (6.8) | 86 (5.4) | |||
Anorexia | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | |||||
No | 9614 (93.8) | 2756 (84) | 10,764 (92.6) | 1332 (83.6) | |||
Yes | 636(6.2) | 526 (16) | 863 (7.4) | 261 (16.4) | |||