Table 1.
Demographic and Injury Characteristics of Mild TBI (mTBI) and Orthopedic Injury (OI) Groups
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MTBI (N=102) |
OI (N=85) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | SD | Range | Mean | SD | Range | p value | |
| Age at injury | 22.91 | 8.96 | 12.16–49.00 | 21.48 | 6.48 | 12.06–46.00 | 0.2065 |
| SCI1 | 0.03 | 0.82 | −1.7–2.05 | 0.02 | 0.78 | −1.47–2.10 | 0.9272 |
| TBI (n, %) | OI (n, %) | ||||||
| Gender | |||||||
| Male | 71 (69.61) | 64 (75.29) | 0.3875 | ||||
| Mechanism of injury | |||||||
| MV3 | 52 (50.98) | 9 (10.59) | <0.0001 | ||||
| Non-MV3 | 25 (24.51) | 32 (37.65) | |||||
| Sports | 15 (14.71) | 29 (34.12) | |||||
| Assault | 10 (9.80) | 15 (17.65) | |||||
| Race | |||||||
| Black | 34 (33.33) | 31 (36.47) | 0.6537 | ||||
| Non-Black | 68 (66.67) | 54 (63.53) | |||||
| GCS2 | |||||||
| 13 | 3 (2.97) | N/A | N/A | ||||
| 14 | 14 (13.86) | ||||||
| 15 | 84 (83.17) | ||||||
| Litigation | |||||||
| Compensation | |||||||
| Yes | 19 (18.63%) | 10 (11.76%) | 0.1774 | ||||
| Yes | 14 (13.73%) | 11 (12.94%) | 0.8337 | ||||
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SCI, Socioeconomic Composite Index; 2GCS, Glasgow Coma Scale; 3MV, motor vehicle; SD, standard deviation.