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Published in final edited form as: Ann Emerg Med. 2012 Sep 27;61(5):10.1016/j.annemergmed.2012.08.024. doi: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2012.08.024

Table 2.

Characteristics of patients with minor traumatic intracranial hemorrhage, by site.

Variable All n=1,412 Site
1, n=155 2, n=312 3, n=264 4, n=45 5, n=198 6, n=69 7, n=32 8, n=337
Age, mean (SD), y 48 (20) 48 (21) 54 (22) 47 (19) 54 (22) 46 (20) 58 (22) 50 (22) 42 (17)
Male (95% CI), % 67 (65–70) 67 (58–74) 59 (53–64) 71 (65–76) 64 (49–78) 69 (62–76) 69 (62–76) 69 (50–84) 73 (68–78)
Initial ED SBP (SD), mean 141 (24) 136 (24) 143 (23) 137 (23) 142 (22) 135 (20) 139 (22) 145 (30) 148 (27)
AIS head (IQR), median 3 (3, 3) 2 (2, 3) 3 (3, 3) 2 (2, 3) 3 (3, 3) n/a 3 (3, 3) 3 (3, 3) 3 (3, 3)
ISS (IQR), median 10 (9, 11) 10 (9, 11) 10 (10, 11) 10 (6, 11) 10 (10, 10) 9 (9, 11) 10 (9, 10) 10 (10, 10) 10 (9, 13)
Mortality, No. (%) 3 (0.21) 1 (0.64) 0 0 0 2 (1.0) 0 0 0
Discharged from hospital home (95% CI), % 88 (86–90) 89 (83–93) 88 (83–91) 85 (80–89) 87 (73–95) 85 (79–89) 86 (75–93) 84 (67–95) 93 (90–96)
Discharged from hospital to intermediate care facility (95% CI), % 7.2 (5.9–8.7) 9.1 (5.1–15) 9.9 (6.9–14) 6.8 (4.1–11) 11 (3.7–24) 13 (8.5–18) 12 (5.1–22) 16 (5.3–33) 6.7 (4.3–9.9)
Discharged from hospital to jail/ psychiatric center/other (95% CI), % 4.6 (3.6–5.9) 1.3 (0.15–4.6) 2.6 (1.1–5.0) 8.0 (5.0–12) 2.2 (0.05–12) 1.5 (0.32–4.5) 2.9 (0.35–10) 0 (0–11)* 0 (0–1.1)*
Hospital length of stay (IQR), median 2 (1, 3) 2 (2, 3) 1 (1, 3) 1 (2, 4) 2 (1, 3) 2 (1, 3) 2 (1, 3) 3 (2, 4) 2 (1, 3)
ICU length of stay (IQR), median 1 (0, 1) 1 (1, 1) 1 (1, 1) 0 (0, 0) 1 (1, 1) 1 (1, 2) 1 (0, 1) 1 (1, 2) 1 (0, 1)

SBP, Systolic blood pressure; AIS, Abbreviated Injury Score; IQR, interquartile range.

*

One sided, 97.5% CI.