Table 4. Predictors for patients delay between trauma and seeking care (n = 3350).

	Spearman Rank Correlation				Multivariate linear regressiona,b
		number	ra	p-valueb	βc	p-value
Age in decades		3350	0.083	<0.0001	>0 (longer delay)	<0.0001
Female gender (n = 1712)		3350	0.058	0.00074	>0 (longer delay)	0.0037
Work-related trauma (n = 1037)		3314	-0.036	0.039	<0 (shorter delay)	0.097
Traffic accident (n = 2395)		3350	-0.020	0.24

^a The patients delay between trauma and seeking care (days) was transformed to ranked normal score of the dependent variable, using Blom’s formula.

^b Variables with p <0.05 in Spearman’s rank correlation were entered into the multivariate model.

^c The point estimate and confidence intervals for the beta coefficient as such makes no sense since the dependent variable is transformed as a rank. Hence, only it’s direction is indicated.