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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jun 25.
Published in final edited form as: Surgery. 2012 Oct;152(4):668–675. doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2012.08.017

Table 1.

Characteristics of subjects according to center of care (TC* vs. non-TC).

TC Non-TC P value
Number, n 44,739 59,276
Age, mean yrs (SD) 51.4 (21.4) 64.1 (20.7) <0.000
Female, n (%) 19,360 (43.3) 36,077 (60.9) <0.000
ISS, mean (SD) 3.30 (1.9) 3.16 (1.7) <0.000
Mortality, n (%) 283 (0.63) 447 (0.75) 0.02
*

TC, trauma center

Non-TC, non-trauma center