Table 2.
Hospital Characteristics of Patients Treated with Open Tibial Fracture
| Amputation | Salvage | All Patients | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | % | n | % | n | % | |||
| 99 | 1.3 | 7,461 | 98.7 | 7,560 | 100 | |||
| Admission type | ||||||||
| Trauma center | 20 | 20.2 | 971 | 13.0 | 991 | 13.1 | ||
| Nontrauma center | 69 | 69.7 | 5,774 | 77.4 | 5,843 | 77.3 | ||
| Unspecified | 10 | 10.1 | 716 | 9.6 | 726 | 9.6 | ||
| Location | ||||||||
| Urban | 94 | 95.0 | 7,338 | 98.4 | 7,432 | 98.3 | ||
| Rural | 5 | 5.0 | 123 | 1.7 | 128 | 1.7 | ||
| Bed size | ||||||||
| Small | 2 | 2.0 | 81 | 1.1 | 83 | 1.1 | ||
| Medium | 29 | 29.3 | 1,441 | 19.3 | 1,470 | 19.4 | ||
| Large | 68 | 68.7 | 5,939 | 79.6 | 6,007 | 79.5 | ||
| Teaching status | ||||||||
| Nonteaching | 11 | 11.1 | 1,176 | 15.8 | 1,187 | 15.7 | ||
| Teaching | 88 | 88.9 | 6,285 | 84.2 | 6,373 | 84.3 | ||
| # cases open tibial fracture per year by hospital | ||||||||
| 1st quartile (<=21 cases/yr.) | 30 | 30.3 | 1,996 | 26.8 | 2,026 | 26.8 | ||
| 2nd quartile (21 – 35 cases/yr.) | 22 | 22.2 | 1,876 | 25.1 | 1,989 | 25.1 | ||
| 3rd quartile (36 – 57 cases/yr.) | 18 | 18.2 | 1,805 | 24.2 | 1,823 | 24.1 | ||
| 4th quartile (>57 cases/yr.) | 29 | 29.3 | 1,784 | 23.9 | 1,813 | 24.0 | ||