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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Oral Maxillofac Surg. 2008 Nov;66(11):2203–2212. doi: 10.1016/j.joms.2008.06.058

Table 1.

Baseline Characteristics of Patients by Treatment Group.

Variable Treatment Group
ORIF group %
(n = 49)		 MMF group %
(n = 93)
Gender, male 87.8% 86%
Race
    • African-American 85.7 72.0
    • Hispanic 8.2 22.6
    • Other 6.1 5.4
Marital Status
    • Single 87.7 83.9
    • Married/Living together 12.2 16.1
Education
    • Not completed high school 42.9 34.4
    • High school graduate 44.9 59.9
    • Beyond high school 12.2 6.5
Employment status
    • Unemployed 75.5 73.1
Nature of injury
    • Assaultive 81.6 82.8
    • Accidental 18.4 18.1
Use alcohol regularly 22.4 25.8
CAGE >1 30.6 31.2
Use street drugs regularly 14.3 25.8
*

All variables expressed in percentages, except where noted. All group differences are nonsignificant (P > 0.05) except for patient age.