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Level of importance agreement for factors influencing geriatric cancer treatment decision-making (n=382)
| Agree |
Disagree |
Neutral |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| Functional status | 94.8% | 0.3% | 5.0% |
| Co-morbidity | 77.7% | 1.3% | 20.9% |
| Cancer type | 75.9% | 3.1% | 20.9% |
| Cancer stage | 88.5% | 0.8% | 10.7% |
| Patient decision | 90.8% | 0.5% | 8.6% |
| Patient age | 69.4% | 6.0% | 24.6% |
| Patient family intention | 58.6% | 6.0% | 35.3% |
| Patient frailty | 89.3% | 1.6% | 9.2% |
Based on a Likert scale, where 1=strongly disagree, 2=somewhat disagree, 3=neutral, 4=somewhat agree, and 5=strongly agree.
Some percentages may not total 100% due to rounding.
*Percent “agree” was calculated using the sum of physicians who chose a 4 or 5 on the Likert scale. †Percent “disagree” was calculated using the sum of physicians who chose a 1 or 2 on the Likert scale. ‡Percent “neutral” was calculated using physicians who chose a 3 on the Likert scale.