Table 1.
Characteristics of singleinjury and multiple-injury patients.
| Characteristics | Admitted (n = 1,871) |
Single injury (n = 810) |
Multiple injuries (n = 1,061) |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Demographics | ||||
| Sex, no.* (%) | ||||
| Female | 936 (50.1) | 402 (49.6) | 534 (50.4) | |
| Male | 934 (49.9) | 408 (50.4) | 526 (49.6) | |
| Age, no.† (%) | ||||
| ≤15 | 204 (10.9) | 64 (7.9) | 140 (13.3) | |
| > 15 to 65 | 1,305 (69.9) | 575 (71.0) | 730 (69.1) | |
| > 65 | 357 (19.1) | 171 (21.1) | 186 (17.6) | |
| Marital status, no.‡ (%) | ||||
| Single | 54 (3.4) | 24 (3.4) | 30 (3.5) | |
| Married | 1,506 (95.9) | 676 (96.2) | 830 (95.7) | |
| Divorced | 1 (0.1) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (0.1) | |
| Widowed | 9 (0.6) | 3 (0.4) | 6 (0.7) | |
| Occupation, no.§ (%) | ||||
| Farmer | 1016 (54.4) | 464 (57.3) | 552 (52.1) | |
| Worker | 16 (0.9) | 9 (1.1) | 7 (0.7) | |
| Officer | 409 (21.9) | 161 (19.9) | 248 (23.4) | |
| Student | 240 (12.8) | 85 (10.5) | 155 (14.6) | |
| Other | 188 (10.1) | 91 (11.2) | 97 (9.2) | |
| Cause of injury | ||||
| Due to main earthquake or aftershock?¶ | ||||
| Main shock | 1,655 (88.7) | 689 (85.6) | 966 (91.1) | |
| Aftershock | 210 (11.3) | 116 (14.4) | 94 (8.9) | |
| Directly or indirectly caused by the earthquake?** | ||||
| Direct | 1,844 (99.4) | 796 (98.9) | 1,048 (99.8) | |
| Indirect | 11 (0.6) | 9 (1.1) | 2 (0.2) | |
| Transfer of patients | ||||
| Was the patient transferred to another hospital? | ||||
| Yes | 320 (17.1) | 99 (12.2) | 221 (20.8) | |
| No | 1,551 (82.9) | 711 (87.8) | 840 (79.2) | |
*One observation with missing data in the multiple-injuries group. †Five observations with missing data in the multiple-injuries group. ‡Includes only those patients in marriage age - 22 years-old in males, 20 years-old in females. Nine observations with missing data, one in the single-injury group, and eight in the multiple-injuries group. §Two observations with missing data in the multiple-injuries group. ¶Six observations with missing data, five in the single-injury group, and one in the multiple-injuries group. ** Sixteen observations with missing data, five in the single-injury group and eleven in the multiple-injuries group