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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2016 Oct;81(4):666–673. doi: 10.1097/TA.0000000000001196

Table 4.

Association of Patient and Resuscitation Features with Number of Errors and High-Risk Errors

Resuscitation Features Median
Number of
Errors (IQR)
Correlation
Coefficient
for all
Errors
p-
value
Median
Number
of
High-
risk
Errors
(IQR)
Correlation
Coefficient
for High-
risk Errors
p-
value
Age 0.07 0.65 0.15 0.37

Gender
  Male 7.5 (6–10.5) 0.50 3 (2–5) 0.70
  Female 9 (5–15) 4 (2–10)

Mechanism of injury
  Blunt (reference) 8 (6–11) 3.5 (2–5)
  Penetrating 9.5 (3–16) 0.95 2.5 (2–3) 0.37
  Burn 3 (3–3) 0.13 3 (3–3) 0.78

ISS
  All values 0.09 0.58 0.15 0.36
  ISS ≤ 10 8 (6–11) 0.93 3 (2–5) 0.35
  ISS > 10 6 (5–15) 3 (2–4)

Activation level
  Stat 8 (6–12) 0.48 2.5 (2–5) 0.14
  Transfer 7 (6–10) 4 (3–5)

Surgical team
  Fellow not present 8 (5–11) 0.77 3 (2–5) 0.83
  Fellow present 8 (6–11.5) 3 (2–5)
  Junior resident as examiner 7 (5–10) 0.03 3 (2–4) 0.04
  Other role as examiner 11.5 (11–13.5) 7.5 (4–12.5)

Team pre-notification
  Pre-notification 7 (5–10) 0.13 3 (2–5) 0.39
  No pre-notification 11 (8–12) 4 (3–6)

Time of resuscitation
  Weekday event 8 (6–12) 0.51 3 (2–4) 0.60
  Weekend event 7.5 (6–10) 4 (2–6)
  Daytime event (7 AM–7 PM) 10 (8–12) 0.03 3 (2–4) 0.90
  Nighttime event (7 PM–7 AM) 6 (4–10) 3 (2–6)

ISS, injury severity score