Table 3.

Unadjusted In-Hospital Mortality by Trauma Funding Status

	Trauma Funding Status^a

	Without Trauma Funding (N=99071)	With Trauma Funding (N=142685)	p-value

All Patients	3293 (3.3%)	4820 (3.4%)	0.4806^f
Re-triage Status			<0.0001^f
Field Triage
Appropriate Triage^b	2540 (4.6%)	2995 (5.2%)
Under-Triage^c	595 (1.5%)	1195 (1.7%)
Re-Triage
Optimal^d	105 (6.3%)	189 (4.7%)
Sub-optimal^e	13 (9.3%)	60 (4.8%)
Other	40 (1.2%)	381 (4.9%)
Homogeneity of ORs Across Trauma Funding Status Groups			0.0009^g

^a.

Trauma Funding Status was determined by the absence ($0.00) or presence (>$0.00) of per capita state trauma funding in the state that the patient was hospitalized in.

^b.

Patients presenting to an emergency department at or directly admitted to a Level I or II trauma center, with no subsequent transfer, were defined as Appropriate Triage on the field.

^c.

Patients presenting to an emergency department at or directly admitted to a Level III, IV, or non-trauma center, with no subsequent transfer, were defined as Under-Triage on the field.

^d.

Patients emergently transferred from any emergency department to a Level I or II trauma center were defined as Optimal Re-Triage.

^e.

Patients emergently transferred from any emergency department to a Level III, IV, or non-trauma center were defined as Sub-optimal Re-Triage.

^f.

P-value testing the association between total mortality and trauma funding status obtained using a Pearson’s chi-square test.

^g.

P-value testing for the homogeneity of odds ratios between funding status groups via a test of a three-way interaction between trauma funding status, re-triage status, and mortality. The Other group was excluded when performing this test.