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Table 5 Characteristics of the lung cancer patients for whom intervention and control GPs returned the questionnaire

From: The effect of direct access to CT scan in early lung cancer detection: an unblinded, cluster-randomised trial

 

All patients

Intervention + questionnaire

Control + questionnaire

P-value

n

(%)

n

(%)

n

(%)

 

All: n

331

 

137

(80.1)

131

(81.9)

 

Gender:

       

 Male

157

(47.4)

72

(52.6)

55

(42.0)

0.083a

 Female

174

(52.6)

65

(47.4)

76

(58.0)

 

Age:

       

 Mean (95 % CI)

69.4

(68.4–70.5)

69.5

(67.9–71.1)

69.2

(67.5–70.9)

0.614b

 Range

 

40–97 yrs.

 

45–90 yrs.

 

44–86 yrs.

 

 40–59 yrs

61

(18.4)

26

(19.0)

23

(17.6)

0.821c

 60–79 yrs

222

(67.0)

90

(65.7)

92

(70.2)

 

 80+

48

(14.5)

21

(15.3)

16

(12.2)

 

Education:

       

  < 10 yrs

136

(41.1)

54

(39.4)

60

(45.8)

0.389c

 10–15

146

(44.1)

61

(44.5)

54

(41.2)

 

  > 15 yrs

40

(12.1)

17

(12.4)

15

(11.5)

 

 Unknown

9

(2.7)

5

(3.7)

2

(1.5)

 

Marital status

       

 Cohabitating

172

(52.0)

70

(51.1)

71

(54.2)

0.612a

 Living alone

159

(48.0)

67

(48.9)

60

(45.8)

 

Comorbidityd

       

 Yes

231

(69.8)

117

(85.4)

114

(87.0)

0.932a

 No

35

(10.6)

18

(13.1)

17

(13.0)

 

Unknown

65

(19.6)

2

(1.5)

0

  
  1. aDifferences between groups were tested by Pearsons χ2 test. bAge differences between groups were tested by Student’s T-test. cDifferences between groups were tested by Wilcoxon test. dData from GP questionnaire