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Table 1 Patient characteristics

From: Is treatment in certified cancer centers related to better survival in patients with pancreatic cancer? Evidence from a large German cohort study

Variable

Certified: no

(n = 39,892)

Certified: yes

(n = 5,426)

Age in years, Median (Q1;Q3)

74

(67;81)

73

(64;79)

Sex, n (%)

  female

20,859

(52.3%)

2,754

(50.8%)

  male

19,033

(47.7%)

2,672

(49.2%)

Distant metastasis, n (%)

  no

18,234

(45.7%)

2,799

(51.6%)

  yes

21,658

(54.3%)

2,627

(48.4%)

Resection, n (%)

  no

31,715

(79.5%)

3,432

(63.3%)

  yes

8,177

(20.5%)

1,994

(36.7%)

  1. Elixhauser comorbidities are not shown in the table. The full results are provided in Additional file 1, Table S2