Table 1.

Characteristics of patients in the Ontario Trauma Registry, Comprehensive Data Set

Characteristic	No. (%)*
No.	10 431
Male sex	7469 (71.6)
Age, mean (SD) yr	43.7 (23.2)
Mechanism of injury
Blunt
Falls	3574 (34.3)
MVC	5388 (51.6)
Other blunt	776 (7.4)
Other	193 (1.8)
Penetrating	500 (4.8)
Stab/impalement	289 (2.8)
Firearm	211 (2.0)
Injury severity
ISS, median (IQR) [range]	22 (16–27) [12–75]
Mortality	1129 (10.8)

IQR = interquartile range; ISS = Injury Severity Score;² MVC = motor vehicle collision; SD = standard deviation.

^*Unless indicated otherwise.