Emergency Medicine International / 2023 / Article / Tab 1 / Research Article
Effect of the Profit and Teaching Status of Hospitals on the Patterns and Outcomes of Abdominal Aorta and Inferior Vena Cava Injuries after Severe Abdominal Trauma Table 1 Demographic characteristics by the type of trauma center, profit status, and hospital teaching status.
Variables PS TS For-profit Nonprofit Community hospital (CH) Nonteaching hospital (NTH) University hospital (UH) (N = 146) (N = 1306) (N = 429) (N = 126) (N = 897) Age group 0.110 0.074 <16 4 (2.7%) 59 (4.6%) 14 (3.3%) 1 (0.8%) 48 (5.4%) 16–20 7 (4.8%) 141 (10.9%) 49 (11.5%) 15 (12.0%) 84 (9.5%) 21–44 81 (55.5%) 670 (52.0%) 214 (50.4%) 71 (56.8%) 466 (52.7%) 45–64 37 (25.3%) 265 (20.6%) 85 (20.0%) 26 (20.8%) 191 (21.6%) 65+ 17 (11.6%) 153 (11.9%) 63 (14.8%) 12 (9.6%) 95 (10.7%) Sex 0.466 0.878 Men 117 (80.1%) 1012 (77.5%) 336 (78.3%) 96 (76.2%) 697 (77.7%) Women 29 (19.9%) 294 (22.5%) 93 (21.7%) 30 (23.8%) 200 (22.3%) Race 0.075 0.061 White 62 (42.5%) 656 (50.2%) 198 (46.2%) 55 (43.7%) 465 (51.8%) Injury type 0.687 0.369 Blunt 71 (48.6%) 677 (52.1%) 233 (54.4%) 63 (50.8%) 452 (50.6%) Penetrating 75 (51.4%) 622 (47.8%) 194 (45.3%) 61 (49.2%) 442 (49.4%) Others 0 (0.0%) 1 (0.1%) 1 (0.2%) 0 (0.0%) 0 (0.0%) Mechanism 0.462 0.450 MVA 51 (35.2%) 515 (39.8%) 174 (41.0%) 45 (36.0%) 347 (39.0%) Firearms 65 (44.8%) 565 (43.7%) 172 (40.6%) 55 (44.0%) 403 (45.3%) Fall 11 (7.6%) 72 (5.6%) 30 (7.1%) 6 (4.8%) 47 (5.3%) Cut/peirce 10 (6.9%) 57 (4.4%) 22 (5.2%) 6 (4.8%) 39 (4.4%) Others 8 (5.5%) 84 (6.5%) 26 (6.1%) 13 (10.4%) 53 (6.0%) Intent 0.021 0.198 Unintentional 72 (49.3%) 682 (52.2%) 237 (55.2%) 68 (54.0%) 449 (50.1%) Self-inflicted 7 (4.8%) 48 (3.7%) 9 (2.1%) 4 (3.2%) 42 (4.7%) Assault 56 (38.4%) 539 (41.3%) 169 (39.4%) 48 (38.1%) 378 (42.1%) Others 11 (7.5%) 37 (2.8%) 14 (3.3%) 6 (4.8%) 28 (3.1%) Trauma center level <0.001 <0.001 Level I 36 (39.1%) 790 (78.7%) 163 (49.8%) 11 (13.8%) 652 (94.6%) Level II 56 (60.9%) 181 (18.0%) 146 (44.6%) 58 (72.5%) 33 (4.8%) Level III 0 (0.0%) 33 (3.3%) 18 (5.5%) 11 (13.8%) 4 (0.6%) Beds <0.001 <0.001 ≤ 200 16 (11.0%) 89 (6.8%) 43 (10.0%) 16 (12.7%) 46 (5.1%) 201–400 53 (36.3%) 257 (19.7%) 155 (36.1%) 46 (36.5%) 109 (12.2%) 401–600 62 (42.5%) 377 (28.9%) 112 (26.1%) 31 (24.6%) 296 (33.0%) >600 15 (10.3%) 583 (44.6%) 119 (27.7%) 33 (26.2%) 446 (49.7%)
