German Bowel Cancer Center: An Attempt to Improve Treatment Quality

Table 2

Tumour and patient related factors.

	Certified	Noncertified
Age (mean in years)	68.3	68.7	0.17
ASA I (%)	8.1	6.9	0.069
ASA II (%)	53.0	49.1	0.0025
ASA III (%)	36.2	40.4	0.0002
ASA IV (%)	2.2	2.7	0.29
Min. 1 risk factor (%)	76.7	79.9	0.002
CT (%)	81.9	84.0	0.025
Pelvic MRI (%)	38.9	29.3	<0.001
Neoadjuvant treatment (%)	41.0	36.5	<0.001
Tumour localization (cm from anal verge)
<4 cm (%)	12.9	15.2	0.008
4–7.9 cm (%)	29.7	28.8	0.42
8–11.9 cm (%)	30.4	29.1	0.25
12–16 cm (%)	26.9	26.8	0.91
TNM classification
pTis	4.65	4.35	0.55
pT1	13.7	12.1	0.06
pT2	24.8	24.3	0.69
pT3	44.7	46.4	0.14
pT4	9.3	9.7	0.59
Missing pT	1.6	2.3	0.034
pN0	57.4	56.0	0.228
pN1	20.8	20.9	0.90
pN2	16.7	16.9	0.87
pNX	3.0	4.0	0.03
Missing pN	2.0	2.2	0.73

Mann-Whitney test; Fisher’s exact test.