Characteristic of hospitalised patients with haematological malignancies who died between 2010 and 2013 in France
| Total study population | Acute leukaemia | Chronic lymphoid leukaemia | Chronic myeloid leukaemia | Hodgkin’s lymphoma | Multiple myeloma | Myelodysplastic syndromes | Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma | |
| n=46 629 | n=11 531 | n=4161 | n=1157 | n=1022 | n=8803 | n=6693 | n=13 262 | |
| n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | |
| Sex | ||||||||
| Men | 25 883 (55.5) | 6304 (54.7) | 2463 (59.2) | 631 (54.5) | 616 (60.3) | 4587 (52.1) | 3769 (56.3) | 7513 (56.7) |
| Women | 20 746 (44.5) | 5227 (45.3) | 1698 (40.8) | 526 (45.5) | 406 (39.7) | 4216 (47.9) | 2924 (43.7) | 5749 (43.4) |
| Age at time of death (years) | ||||||||
| <60 | 4955 (10.6) | 1800 (15.6) | 162 (3.9) | 83 (7.2) | 342 (33.5) | 772 (8.8) | 201 (3.0) | 1595 (12.0) |
| 60–69 | 7024 (15.1) | 2126 (18.4) | 464 (11.2) | 114 (9.9) | 164 (16.1) | 1562 (17.7) | 447 (6.7) | 2147 (16.2) |
| 70–79 | 13 157 (28.2) | 3466 (30.1) | 1133 (27.2) | 314 (27.1) | 223 (21.8) | 2768 (31.4) | 1452 (21.7) | 3801 (28.7) |
| 80–89 | 17 572 (37.7) | 3523 (30.6) | 1902 (45.7) | 502 (43.4) | 270 (26.4) | 3177 (36.1) | 3411 (51.0) | 4787 (36.1) |
| 90 and older | 3921 (8.4) | 616 (5.3) | 500 (12.0) | 144 (12.5) | 23 (2.3) | 524 (6.0) | 1182 (17.7) | 932 (7.0) |
| Number of Charlson chronic comorbidities | ||||||||
| Mean (SD) | 1.1 (1.1) | 0.7 (0.9) | 1.2 (1.2) | 1.4 (1.3) | 1.1 (1.2) | 1.1 (1.1) | 1.5 (1.3) | 1.0 (1.1) |
| 0 | 18 204 (39.0) | 6001 (52.0) | 1372 (33.0) | 338 (29.2) | 407 (39.8) | 3026 (34.4) | 1608 (24.0) | 5452 (41.1) |
| 1 | 14 777 (31.7) | 3494 (30.3) | 1337 (32.1) | 356 (30.8) | 314 (30.7) | 2967 (33.7) | 2030 (30.3) | 4279 (32.3) |
| ≥2 | 13 648 (29.3) | 2036 (17.7) | 1452 (34.9) | 463 (40.0) | 301 (29.5) | 2810 (31.9) | 3055 (45.6) | 3531 (26.6) |
| Category of hospital where patients died | ||||||||
| University hospital | 13 070 (28.0) | 4031 (35.0) | 971 (23.3) | 311 (26.9) | 330 (32.3) | 2450 (27.8) | 1477 (22.1) | 3500 (26.4) |
| Large general hospital | 21 109 (45.3) | 5003 (43.4) | 2051 (49.3) | 520 (44.9) | 436 (42.7) | 4021 (45.7) | 3472 (51.9) | 5606 (42.3) |
| Small general hospital | 1836 (3.9) | 319 (2.8) | 215 (5.2) | 63 (5.5) | 21 (2.1) | 330 (3.8) | 396 (5.9) | 492 (3.7) |
| Rural hospital | 1042 (2.2) | 136 (1.2) | 119 (2.9) | 36 (3.1) | 20 (2.0) | 218 (2.5) | 177 (2.6) | 336 (2.5) |
| Comprehensive cancer centre | 1568 (3.4) | 561 (4.9) | 86 (2.1) | 16 (1.4) | 43 (4.2) | 226 (2.6) | 83 (1.2) | 553 (4.2) |
| For-profit clinic | 3613 (7.8) | 625 (5.4) | 331 (8.0) | 99 (8.6) | 93 (9.1) | 679 (7.7) | 441 (6.6) | 1345 (10.1) |
| Not-for-profit clinic | 2577 (5.5) | 554 (4.8) | 216 (5.2) | 61 (5.3) | 48 (4.7) | 510 (5.8) | 368 (5.5) | 820 (6.2) |
| Rehabilitation care facility | 1814 (3.9) | 302 (2.6) | 172 (4.1) | 51 (4.4) | 31 (3.0) | 369 (4.2) | 279 (4.2) | 610 (4.6) |