Table 2.
Frequency of sex, age, South African Triage Scale scores and outcomes in intentional and unintentional trauma cases.
| Intentional |
Unintentional |
Chi Square Test | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cases | Percentage | Cases | Percentage | |||
| Sex | Male | 154 | 61.4 | 194 | 61.8 | 4.5977 (p = 0.03) |
| Female | 93 | 37.1 | 118 | 37.6 | 2.962 (p = 0.09) | |
| Missing | 4 | 1.6 | 2 | 0.6 | 0.667 (p = 0.41) | |
| Age | <18 | 26 | 10.4 | 101 | 32.2 | 44.291 (p < 0.001) |
| 18–34 | 152 | 60.6 | 104 | 33.1 | 9.000 (p < 0.01) | |
| 35–59 | 67 | 26.7 | 80 | 25.5 | 1.150 (p = 0.28) | |
| >60 | 2 | 0.8 | 23 | 7.3 | 17.640 (p < 0.001) | |
| Missing | 4 | 1.6 | 6 | 1.9 | 0.400 (p = 0.53) | |
| South African Triage Scale Score | Red | 5 | 2.0 | 1 | 0.3 | 2.667 (p = 0.10) |
| Orange | 27 | 10.8 | 37 | 11.8 | 1.563 (p = 0.21) | |
| Yellow | 156 | 62.2 | 212 | 67.5 | 8.522 (p < 0.01) | |
| Green | 43 | 17.1 | 32 | 10.2 | 1.613 (p = 0.20) | |
| Missing | 20 | 8.0 | 32 | 10.2 | 2.769 (p = 0.10) | |
| Disposition | Admitted | 13 | 5.2 | 2 | 0.6 | 8.067 (p < 0.01) |
| Transferred | 12 | 4.8 | 8 | 2.5 | 0.800 (p = 0.37) | |
| Discharged | 194 | 77.3 | 263 | 83.8 | 10.418 (p = 0.001) | |
| Abscond | 19 | 7.6 | 15 | 4.8 | 0.471 (p = 0.49) | |
| Missing | 13 | 5.2 | 26 | 8.3 | 4.333 (p = 0.04) | |
| Total | 251 | 44.4 | 314 | 55.6 | 7.025 (p = 0.01) | |