Table 1 Baseline demographics of 261 pediatrics cancer patients who visited the emergency room
Characteristic | N = 261 |
|---|---|
Age a | 11 (5, 16) |
Gender | |
Male | 135 (51.7%) |
Female | 126 (48.3%) |
Primary cancer type | |
Bone and soft tissue tumors | 72 (27.6%) |
Hematologic malignancies | 68 (26.1%) |
Neuroblastoma | 51 (19.5%) |
Central nervous system tumors | 34 (13.0%) |
Retinoblastoma | 12 (4.6%) |
Other tumors | 24 (9.2%) |
Ethnicity | |
White | 141 (54.0%) |
Hispanic | 36 (13.8%) |
Black | 29 (11.1%) |
Asian | 26 (10.0%) |
Others/unknown | 29 (11.1%) |
No. of visits | |
1 | 206 (78.9%) |
2 | 35 (13.4%) |
3 | 14 (5.4%) |
4 | 3 (1.1%) |
5 | 2 (0.8%) |
8 | 1 (0.4%) |