Table 3. Demographics and treatment data: comparison of former East German and former West German states.

		Former East German states (n=2597)	Former West German states (n=22966)	p-value
Treatment level	Supraregional TC	82.8% (2151)	86.5% (19870)	<0.001
	Regional TC	15.7% (407)	11.2 (2582)
	Local TC	1.5% (39)	2.2 (514)
Demographics	Male	72.8% (1891)	72.6% (16643)	0.80
	Age (years)	40.6 (19.7)	42.4 (20.7)	<0.001
		[38]	[40]
Trauma	Blunt	96.1% (2494)	94.8% (21712)	0.004
	Traffic accidents	72.0% (1871)	60.8% (13961)	<0.001
	Suicide attempts	4.4% (115)	5.7% (1292)	0.009
	Injury Severity Score (ISS)	28.4 (14.0)	25.6 (14.0)	<0.001
		[26]	[24]
Preclinical phase	Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS)	10.9 (4.7)	11.0 (4.7)	0.048
		[13]	[14]
	SBP	118 (34)	118 (34)	0.94
		[120]	[120]
	Air transport	41.1% (1014)	41.0% (8831)	0.90
	Time from accident to hospital admission (min)	76 (35)	69 (35)	<0.001
		[70]	[62]
	Time from accident to arrival of emergency physician (min)	19 (13)	17 (13)	<0.001
		[15]	[15]
	Number of measures	2.5 (1.1)	2.4 (1.1)	<0.001
		[3]	[3]
Clinical phase	Packed red blood cells (pRBC)	2.5 (5.4)	2.3 (6.1)	<0.001
		[0]	[0]
	Fresh frozen plasma (FFP)	1.1 (3.7)	1.0 (4.0)	<0.001
		[0]	[0]
	Minutes in shock room	65 (40)	72 (43)	<0.001
		[55]	[61]
	Computed tomography	86.5% (2246)	80.4% (18468)	<0.001
	Hospital stay (days)	25.0 (21.7)	25.3 (28.1)	<0.001
		[21]	[18]
	ICU stay (days)	11.1 (13.6)	10.3 (14.0)	<0.001
		[6]	[5]
	Days of intubation	6.6 (10.8)	6.6 (11.3)	0.78
		[2]	[2]
Outcome	Mortality	15.8% (411)	15.7% (3604)	0.86

For categorical variables the percentage and the number of cases (in parentheses) are given, for constant variables the mean, median (in square brackets), and standard deviation (in parentheses) TC, trauma center; blunt, blunt mechanism of injury; SBP, patient’s systolic blood pressure at site of accident; ICU, intensive care unit