Table 1.

Patient characteristics of transfused and non-transfused groups

	Total Cohort	Transfused	Non-Transfused	p
n	1639	106	1533
Age (yrs)	7.8 ± 5.0	7.4 ± 5.5	7.8 ± 4.9	0.331
Gender
Males	1021 (62%)	52 (49%)	969 63%)	0.004
Females	618 (38%)	54 (51%)	564 (37%)
Race
White	950 (58%)	52 (49%)	898 (59%)	0.056
African-American	399 (24%)	31 (29%)	368 (24%)	0.224
Hispanic	185 (11%)	17 (16%)	168 (11%)	0.110
Other	105 (6%)	6 (6%)	99 (6%)	0.746
Mechanism of Injury
Blunt	1520 (93%)	98 (92%)	1422 (93%)	0.906
Penetrating	118 (7%)	7 (7%)	111 (7%)
Burn	1 (0%)	1 (1%)	0 (0%)