Table 1.
Trauma Center Patient Characteristics
| LA County | Current Study | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N | % | N | % | Weighted % | |
| TOTAL | 677 | 100.0 | 100.0 | ||
| Age | |||||
| <25 | 3614 | 27.1 | 199 | 29.4 | 27.5 |
| 25–37 | 4258 | 32.0 | 246 | 36.3 | 32.6 |
| 38+ | 5456 | 40.9 | 232 | 34.3 | 39.9 |
| Sex | |||||
| Male | 10381 | 77.9 | 525 | 77.5 | 78.5 |
| Female | 2947 | 22.1 | 152 | 22.5 | 21.5 |
| Race/Ethnicity | |||||
| Latino | 6477 | 48.6 | 330 | 48.7 | 49.2 |
| Black | 2524 | 18.9 | 171 | 25.3 | 18.9 |
| White/Other | 4327 | 32.5 | 176 | 26.0 | 32.0 |
| Injury Mechanism | |||||
| Assault¶ | 4275 | 32.1 | 246 | 36.3 | 32.1 |
| Other | 9053 | 67.9 | 431 | 63.7 | 67.9 |
| Injury Severity | |||||
| <5 | 5035 | 37.8 | 191 | 28.2 | 37.7 |
| 5–9 | 3787 | 28.4 | 215 | 31.8 | 28.3 |
| 10+ | 4506 | 33.8 | 271 | 40.0 | 34.0 |
LA County estimates derived from the 2005 Los Angeles County Trauma and Emergency Medicine Information System (TEMIS). For these estimates, TEMIS data was restricted to patients between the ages of 18 and 70 and excluded those with missing data on injury severity or race/ethnicity, or if race/ethnicity was coded as ‘unknown.’
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Does not include self-inflicted injuries.