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. 2013 May 13;48(5):1684–1703. doi: 10.1111/1475-6773.12064

Table 1.

Patient Characteristics

Black (n = 30,458) White (n = 161,429) p-Value
Demographics
 Age, years (median, IQR) 36 (24, 50) 51 (33, 74) <.001
Sex
 Male 22,943 (75.3) 96,374 (59.7) <.001
 Female 7,515 (24.7) 65,055 (40.3)
Transfer from other hospital
 Transferred in 4,512 (14.8) 46,594 (28.9) <.001
 Not transferred in 25,946 (85.2) 114,835 (71.1)
Glasgow coma scale motor
 GCS motor = 1 3,108 (10.2) 11,926 (7.4) <.001
 GCS motor = 2 69 (0.2) 408 (0.3)
 GCS motor = 3 113 (0.4) 558 (0.4)
 GCS motor = 4 481 (1.6) 1,842 (1.1)
 GCS motor = 5 975 (3.2) 4,254 (2.6)
 GCS motor = 6 23,826 (78.2) 131,079 (81.2)
 Missing 1,886 (6.2) 11,362 (7.0)
Systolic blood pressure
 0–30 1,483 (4.9) 1,412 (0.9) <.001
 31–60 182 (0.6) 426 (0.3)
 61–90 1,215 (4.0) 3,895 (2.4)
 91–160 22,043 (72.4) 121,694 (75.4)
 161–220 4,509(14.8) 29,705 (18.4)
 >220 175 (0.6) 1,043 (0.7)
 Missing 851 (2.8) 3,254 (2.0)
Mechanism of trauma
 Blunt 10,098 (33.2) 69,529 (43.1) <.001
 Motor vehicle accident 4,885 (16.0) 45,581 (28.2)
 Gunshot 8,269 (27.2) 2,913 (1.8)
 Stab 2,432 (8.0) 4,307 (2.7)
 Pedestrian trauma 2,604 (8.6) 14,007 (8.7)
 Low-fall 2,170 (7.1) 25,092 (15.5)
Mortality 2,875 (9.4) 9,401 (5.8) <.001
Death or major complication 4,934 (16.2) 18,917 (11.7) <.001

GCS motor, motor component of the Glasgow coma scale; IQR, interquartile range.