Figure 1

Survival curves of esophageal patients according to MDT participant status. The cumulative survival of esophageal patients among 2953 MDT patients and 2953 non-participants. The survival curves were controlled by gender, age, monthly salary, urbanization level, comorbidities, other catastrophic illness, level of hospital, hospital ownership, service volume of attending physicians. The survival rates of MDT participants were significantly higher than those of MDT non-participants (adjusted HR = 0.73, 95% CI 0.67–0.79).