Table 3.

Bivariate Analysis Comparing Demographic and Clinical Characteristics by Race/Ethnicity

	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian	Native American	Other	P
Females	42.7	38.6	40.5	44.0	65.0	41.9	0.208
Mortality	1.5	1.9	0.7	2.4	2.3	1.9	0.453
Insurance status
Private	43.6	17.6	25.3	45.1	6.7	32.7	0.004
Government	29.2	55.1	39.9	22.6	48.6	45.5
Uninsured	9.3	12.5	19.6	20.0	23.2	18.7
Head injury	11.1	10.2	8.4	12.0	13.1	6.0	0.158
ISS category
<9	59.3	63.2	59.3	56.4	35.8	66.8	0.122
9–14	26.4	25.5	27.7	32.3	24.2	21.9
15–24	9.9	8.1	11.0	6.0	22.3	8.7
≥25	4.3	3.2	2.0	5.3	17.8	2.5
Intentional injuries	6.5	12.8	10.2	5.2	19.0	6.5	0.003
Injury type
Blunt	84.7	72.4	85.4	85.6	79.0	80.3	0.008
Burn	9.3	24.1	9.2	11.5	15.3	10.2
Penetrating	6.1	3.5	5.4	2.9	5.7	9.5
Mechanism of injury
MVC	0.0	0.1	0.3	0.3	1.5	0.7	0.347
Fall	52.8	41.2	51.5	65.6	36.3	44.1
Pedestrian	1.7	2.4	2.1	0.5	6.8	3.7
Cyclist	0.84	0.2	1.2	0.0	2.5	0.7
Motorcyclist	0.02	0.0	0.5	0.0	0.0	0.0
Stab	1.9	0.3	1.6	0.0	0.0	4.6
Gunshot wound	0.2	1.3	0.9	2.7	0.0	0.4

ISS, Injury Severity Score; MVC, motor vehicle collision.