Effects of three-dimensional quality assessment nursing intervention on efficacy and disease management of patients undergoing esophageal cancer surgery

Table 1 Patient characteristics (n = 112)

Variables	Control group	Experiment group
Sample size	56	56
Male	46	53
Age (years)	44.7 ± 7.7	48.7 ± 7.7
Duration of illness (years)	7.3 ± 2.3	8.1 ± 3.2
Surgical approach
Thoracic laparoscopy	56	47
Thoracotomy	44	53
Metastasis
No	97	96
Yes	3	4
Neoplasm staging
I phase	65	68
II phase	24	27
III phase	11	5