Table 2.

Treatment of paediatric tibial shaft fractures

Variable	Category	Treated surgically (%)	Standard error (%)	95% CI lower (%)	95% CI higher (%)
Sex	Male	65.45	0.67	64.14	66.76
	Female	62.11	1.04	60.08	64.14
Age	0 to 4	18.70	1.71	15.35	22.05
	5 to 9	32.55	1.39	29.83	35.28
	10 to 14	50.02	0.95	48.15	51.88
	15 to 20	81.22	0.49	80.25	82.18
Hospital type	General hospital	65.92	0.56	64.83	67.01
	Children’s hospital	53.03	2.921	47.31	58.76
Insurance status	Medicaid	59.20	1.07	57.09	61.30
	Private/self-pay/other	66.29	0.63	65.05	67.53
Concurrent injury	Isolated tibia fracture	63.79	0.64	62.53	65.05
	Concurrent femur fracture	76.27	1.46	73.41	79.13
Year	2000	54.82	1.26	52.35	57.30
	2003	61.03	1.08	58.92	63.15
	2006	66.93	1.10	64.78	69.09
	2009	69.83	1.19	67.51	72.16
	2012	72.24	1.06	70.16	74.31
Total		64.64	0.62	63.42	65.86

CI, confidence interval