Table 2.
Injury in people with and without dementia
Variables | Total | People with dementia | People without dementia | p value | |||
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n | % | n | % | n | % | ||
Total | 455,630 | 91,126 | 20.00 | 364,504 | 80.00 | ||
Injury | < 0.001 | ||||||
Without | 368,734 | 80.93 | 72,978 | 80.08 | 295,756 | 81.14 | |
With | 86,896 | 19.07 | 18,148 | 19.92 | 68,748 | 18.86 | |
Injury diagnosis | < 0.001 | ||||||
Fracture | 32,838 | 37.79 | 6374 | 35.12 | 26,464 | 38.49 | |
Dislocation | 826 | 0.95 | 182 | 1.00 | 644 | 0.94 | |
Sprains and strains | 1715 | 1.97 | 415 | 2.29 | 1300 | 1.89 | |
Intracranial/internal injury | 9694 | 11.16 | 2246 | 12.38 | 7448 | 10.83 | |
Open wound | 4504 | 5.18 | 1093 | 6.02 | 3411 | 4.96 | |
Injury to blood vessels | 51 | 0.06 | 6 | 0.03 | 45 | 0.07 | |
Superficial injury/contusion | 3494 | 4.02 | 826 | 4.55 | 2668 | 3.88 | |
Crushing | 185 | 0.21 | 28 | 0.15 | 157 | 0.23 | |
Foreign body entering through orifice | 1079 | 1.24 | 375 | 2.07 | 704 | 1.02 | |
Burn | 936 | 1.08 | 228 | 1.26 | 708 | 1.03 | |
Injury to nerves and spinal cord | 367 | 0.42 | 62 | 0.34 | 305 | 0.44 | |
Poisoning | 3897 | 4.48 | 901 | 4.96 | 2996 | 4.36 | |
Others injury | 27,310 | 31.43 | 5412 | 29.82 | 21,898 | 31.85 | |
Cause of injury | < 0.001 | ||||||
Traffic | 5888 | 10.44 | 647 | 5.86 | 5241 | 11.55 | |
Poisoning (drugs/medicaments/biologicals) | 816 | 1.45 | 212 | 1.92 | 604 | 1.33 | |
Poisoning (solid and liquid substances/gases/vapors) | 191 | 0.34 | 41 | 0.37 | 150 | 0.33 | |
Surgical/medical care | 137 | 0.24 | 30 | 0.27 | 107 | 0.24 | |
Abnormal reaction of medical procedures | 13,221 | 23.44 | 2424 | 21.97 | 10,797 | 23.79 | |
Falls | 27,075 | 48.00 | 5533 | 50.15 | 21,542 | 47.47 | |
Burns and fires | 64 | 0.11 | 10 | 0.09 | 54 | 0.12 | |
Environment | 216 | 0.38 | 33 | 0.30 | 183 | 0.40 | |
Drowning | 8 | 0.01 | 1 | 0.01 | 7 | 0.02 | |
Suffocation | 672 | 1.19 | 238 | 2.16 | 434 | 0.96 | |
Other unintentional injuries | 4717 | 8.36 | 1147 | 10.40 | 3570 | 7.87 | |
Late effects | 1324 | 2.35 | 314 | 2.85 | 1010 | 2.23 | |
Adverse drug reaction | 1331 | 2.36 | 281 | 2.55 | 1050 | 2.31 | |
Suicide | 580 | 1.03 | 82 | 0.74 | 498 | 1.10 | |
Homicide/abuse | 168 | 0.30 | 39 | 0.35 | 129 | 0.28 | |
Intentionality of injury | 0.018 | ||||||
Unintentional | 55,660 | 98.67 | 10,911 | 98.90 | 44,749 | 98.62 | |
Intentional | 748 | 1.33 | 121 | 1.10 | 627 | 1.38 |
p value by Chi-square/Fisher exact test on category variables and t test on continue variables