Figure 4

Symptom clusters and survival. (a) Unadjusted 30-day in-hospital mortality by cluster. Kaplan-Meier curves, those discharged before 30 days were assumed to have survived until the end of follow-up. (b) The risk of 30 day in-hospital mortality, adjusted for age and sex. Upper panel, Forest plot, showing results of a Cox proportional hazards model. Lower panel, Hazard ratio associated with varying age, fitted with psplines. Data are presented as hazard ratio (HR) and 95% confidence intervals. Red dotted line - 95% CI Core symptoms serves as the reference symptom cluster. The cohort median age serves as the reference age.