Table 2.
Injury Characteristics from Medical Record Abstraction
| 3 month PedsQL | 12 month PedsQL | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | Expected n=291 Row% | Poora n=37Row% | p value | n | Expected n=271Row% | Poora n=40Row% | p value | |
| Mild TBI | 0.74 | 0.49 | ||||||
| 1 | 306 | 88.6 | 11.4 | 290 | 86.6 | 13.4 | ||
| 2 | 22 | 90.9 | 9.1 | 21 | 95.2 | 4.8 | ||
| Mechanism of injury | 0.84 | 0.26 | ||||||
| Motor vehicle (occupant) | 11 | 81.8 | 18.2 | 11 | 72.7 | 27.3 | ||
| Pedestrian or bicycle | 25 | 92.0 | 8.0 | 23 | 78.3 | 21.7 | ||
| Fall | 189 | 88.9 | 11.1 | 178 | 88.2 | 11.8 | ||
| Stuck by/against | 102 | 88.2 | 11.8 | 98 | 88.8 | 11.2 | ||
| Emergency medical services level | 0.30 | 0.56 | ||||||
| Advanced life support | 21 | 81.0 | 19.0 | 20 | 80.0 | 20.0 | ||
| Basic life support | 40 | 85.0 | 15.0 | 37 | 89.2 | 10.8 | ||
| Not transported by emergency medical services | 259 | 89.6 | 10.4 | 246 | 87.4 | 12.6 | ||
| Isolated TBI | 221 | 89.1 | 10.9 | 0.73 | 208 | 87.5 | 12.5 | 0.79 |
| Head maximum AIS | 0.51 | 0.21 | ||||||
| 1 | 230 | 90.0 | 10.0 | 219 | 89.0 | 11.0 | ||
| 2 | 86 | 86.1 | 13.9 | 81 | 81.5 | 18.5 | ||
| 3 | 12 | 83.3 | 16.7 | 11 | 90.9 | 9.1 | ||
a
Defined by a decrease in total PedsQL score of >15 points from baseline to follow-up.
TBI, traumatic brain injury; PedsQL, Pediatric Quality of Life Index; AIS, Abbreviated Injury Scale score.