Surprise Question and performance status indicate urgency of palliative care needs 97 Figure 1. Observed survival of patients with advanced cancer from their first visit to the emergency department. Table 1. Patient and disease characteristics of patients with advanced cancer visiting the emergency department Total (n=245) NS-patients (n=203) S-patients (n=42) P-value Age, median (IQ-range) 62 (45-79) 62 (53-69) 59 (49.50-69.25) 0.23 Sex, male, n (%) 118 (48.2) 91 (44.8) 27 (64.3) 0.021 Location primary tumour, n (%) 0.001 Breast 29 (11.8) 24 (11.8) 5 (11.9) Gynaecologic 27 (11.0) 27 (13.3) 0 (0.0) Bowel (gastro-intestinal-colorectal) 75 (30.6) 66 (32.5) 9 (21.4) Head/neck 10 (4.1) 7 (3.4) 3 (7.1) Lung 14 (5.7) 14 (6.9) 0 (0.0) Urologic 31 (12.7) 21 (10.3) 10 (23.8) Hematologic 11 (4.5) 6 (3.0) 5 (11.9) Unknown 3 (1.2) 3 (1.5) 0 (0.0) Othera 45 (18.4) 35 (17.2) 10 (23.8) Disease phase, n (%) 0.049 Disease-modifying 174 (71.0) 139 (68.5) 35 (83.3) Symptom-management 67 (27.3) 60 (29.6) 7 (16.7) Terminal 2 (0.8) 2 (1.0) 0 (0.0) Unknown 2 (0.8) 2 (1.0) 0 (0.0) 5
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