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Table 1 Details of 394 patients undergoing surgery for peri-ampullary cancer between January 2006 and May 2014, displayed by referring hospital of origin. Hospital A hosts the regional HPB cancer centre

From: Variation in survival after surgery for peri-ampullary cancer in a regional cancer network

Referring hospital

(A)

(B)

(C)

(D)

(E)

P

n = 394 (%)

111 (28.2)

97 (24.6)

70 (17.8)

74 (18.8)

42 (10.6)

 

Population served

464,437

368,313

410,213

278,555

171,227

Annual operation rate for PC per 100000

2.99

3.29

2.13

3.32

3.07

0.044

Median Travel Distance (kilometres) (range)

10.8 (2.4–112)

85.9 (45.2–155.8)

78.8 (10.1–130.3)

54.7 (2.4–96.2)

98.3 (63–138.6)

.000

Median age (range)

65.7 (41.2–82.0)

68.4 (41.7–84.0)

65.5 (39.4–78.6)

65.6 (45.9–86.4)

70.2 (50.7–84.4)

.105

Gender (% Male)

53.2

58.8

58.6

58.1

52.4

.880

ASA Grade (%)

1

8 (7.2)

8 (8.2)

8 (11.4)

7 (9.5)

0

.416

2

56 (50.5)

53 (54.6)

39 (55.7)

41 (55.4)

22 (52.4)

3

28 (25.2)

26 (26.8)

18 (25.7)

18 (24.3)

14 (33.3)

4

2 (1.8)

1 (1)

0

0

0

Missing

17 (15.3)

9 (9.3)

5 (7.1)

8 (10.8)

6 (14.3)

Diabetes

Yes (%)

13 (11.7)

10 (10.3)

7 (10.0)

6 (8.1)

5 (11.9)

.987

Missing data

12 (10.8)

17 (17.5)

14 (20.0)

15 (20.3)

4 (9.5)

Jaundice at Presentation (%)

91 (82.0)

82 (84.5)

56 (80)

65 (87.8)

36 (85.7)

.641

Median interval to surgery (days) (range)

47 (5–551)

52 (1–459)

56.5 (16–379)

47 (16–246)

51.5 (6–477)

.108

Resection completed (%)

73 (65.7)

68 (70)

51 (72.8)

51 (68.9)

30 (71.4)

.880

30-day mortality (%)

4 (3.6)

1 (1)

2 (2.8)

1 (1.3)

2 (4.7)

.610