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Table 3 Mean Health Status by treatment modality

From: The cost burden of oral, oral pharyngeal, and salivary gland cancers in three groups: commercial insurance, medicare, and medicaid

  

Known Treatment Modalities

  
 

Total OC/OP/SG Cancer

Radiation

Surgery

Chemotherapy

Radiation + Chemotherapy

Surgery + Chemotherapy

Surgery + Radiation

Surgery + Radiation + Chemotherapy

Total known modalitiesA

Unknown

P- valueB

COMMERCIAL

Number of Patients

3918

233

882

77

361

55

670

681

2959

959

 

Percent of oral cancer group

100.0%

5.9%

22.5%

2.0%

9.2%

1.4%

17.1%

17.4%

75.5%

24.5%

 

Charlson Comorbidity

1.67

2.54

0.80

3.40

3.15

2.20

1.80

2.19

1.86

1.06

<0.001

Index (CCI)

           

Modified CCIC

0.21

0.29

0.21

0.43

0.24

0.25

0.27

0.18

0.23

0.15

<0.001

Number of Psychiatric Diagnosis Groups

0.12

0.12

0.12

0.21

0.15

0.15

0.12

0.11

0.12

0.11

<0.001

MEDICARE

Number of Patients

2303

130

660

53

150

69

434

281

1777

526

 

Percent of oral cancer group

100.0%

5.6%

28.7%

2.3%

6.5%

3.0%

18.8%

12.2%

77.2%

22.8%

 

Charlson Comorbidity Index (CCI)

1.88

2.88

1.32

2.45

2.88

2.33

2.13

2.35

2.00

1.49

<0.001

Modified CCIC

0.47

0.53

0.40

0.36

0.52

0.49

0.58

0.54

0.49

0.41

<0.001

Number of Psychiatric

0.06

0.12

0.06

0.11

0.07

0.04

0.04

0.07

0.06

0.07

<0.001

Diagnosis Groups

           

MEDICAID

Number of Patients

585

52

93

29

70

7

62

68

381

204

 

Percent of oral cancer group

100.0%

8.9%

15.9%

5.0%

12.0%

1.2%

10.6%

11.6%

65.1%

34.9%

 

Charlson Comorbidity

2.31

3.15

1.63

3.34

3.20

2.86

1.95

2.18

2.43

2.07

<0.001

Index (CCI)

           

Modified CCIC

0.59

0.50

0.70

0.62

0.80

0.57

0.82

0.62

0.69

0.41

<0.001

Number of Psychiatric Diagnosis Groups

0.50

0.62

0.56

0.31

0.59

0.86

0.50

0.54

0.55

0.43

0.536

  1. A. Total known modalities is the sum of previous 7 columns (radiation through surgery + radiation + chemotherapy.
  2. B. P-value is from chi square test for a significant difference between the treatment modalities (including unknown modality).
  3. C. Modified CCI excludes cancer and tobacco related diagnoses from the CCI.