Skip to main content
. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Pediatr Emerg Care. 2019 Jan;35(1):1–7. doi: 10.1097/PEC.0000000000000902

Table 3.

Number of injured patients discharged from non-trauma centers and level-1 trauma centers along with breakdown of that total injury admission number by age and severity of illness. Mortality for each hospital type also presented overall and by subgroup. See Table 1 for trauma center and level definitions.

Level-1 Pediatric Trauma Center Level-1 Dual-certified Trauma Center Level-1 General Trauma Center Non-Trauma Center
Injury discharges [n] 20,415 32,624 12,040 50,048
 Severely-injured (ISS>15) [n(%)] 2,282 (11.2%) 4,091 (12.5%) 1,683 (14.0%) 2,059 (4.1%)
 Young (<5 years old) [n(%)] 7,229 (35.4%) 10,075 (30.9%) 3,273 (27.2%) 14,048 (28.1%)
 Young & Severely-injured [n(%)] 907 (4.4%) 1011 (3.1%) 311 (2.6%) 541 (1.1%)
Died [n] 204 462 251 165
 % of total 1.0% 1.4% 2.1%** 0.3%**
 % among severely-injured (ISS>15) 7.1% 9.2% 12% 6.2%
 % among young (<5 years old) 1.6% 1.7% 2.1% 0.4%
 % among young & severely-injured 11% 13% 13% 5.7%
*

p<0.05,

**

p<0.01 with pediatric trauma centers as reference