Table 1:
Demographic characteristics of survey respondents. P-values refer to the univariate logistic regression predicting the level-of-care decision (floor vs. ICU) for the child in the clinical vignette.
| All (%)* n=536 |
Admit Floor (%)* n=208 |
Admit ICU (%)* n=326 |
P-value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Specialty | ||||
| Emergency Medicine | 205 (38.3) | 109 (52.4) | 96 (29.5) | Ref |
| Critical Care | 132 (24.6) | 41 (19.7) | 91 (27.9) | < 0.01 |
| General Surgery | 68 (12.7) | 19 (9.1) | 49 (15.0) | < 0.01 |
| Neurosurgery | 112 (20.9) | 30 (14.4) | 80 (24.5) | < 0.01 |
| Other | 19 (3.5) | 9 (4.3) | 10 (3.1) | 0.63 |
| Training Level | ||||
| Resident | 91 (17.4) | 19 (9.3) | 72 (22.7) | Ref |
| Fellow | 101 (19.3) | 41 (20.1) | 60 (18.9) | < 0.01 |
| Attending | 331 (63.3) | 144 (70.6) | 185 (58.4) | < 0.01 |
| Age | ||||
| < 40 | 304 (58.1) | 118 (57.8) | 186 (58.7) | Ref |
| 40–49 | 135 (25.8) | 59 (28.9) | 75 (23.7) | 0.31 |
| ≥ 50 | 84 (16.1) | 27 (13.2) | 56 (17.7) | 0.30 |
| Gender | ||||
| Female | 247 (47.7) | 107 (52.7) | 140 (44.7) | 0.08 |
| Male | 271 (52.3) | 96 (47.3) | 173 (55.3) | Ref |
| Number of children with mTBI cared for per year | ||||
| 0–20 | 135 (25.9) | 41 (20.2) | 94 (29.7) | < 0.01 |
| 20–39 | 155 (29.7) | 57 (28.1) | 96 (30.3) | 0.12 |
| ≥ 40 | 232 (44.4) | 105 (51.7) | 127 (40.1) | Ref |
| Level 1 Trauma Center** | ||||
| Yes | 494 (94.3) | 193 (94.6) | 299 (94.0) | Ref |
| No | 30 (5.7) | 11 (5.4) | 19 (6.0) | 0.78 |
| Academic Medical Center*** | ||||
| Yes | 499 (95.2) | 197 (96.6) | 300 (94.3) | Ref |
| No | 25 (4.8) | 7 (3.4) | 18 (5.7) | 0.25 |
| Independent Children’s Hospital | ||||
| Yes | 400 (76.3) | 169 (82.8) | 230 (72.3) | Ref |
| No | 124 (23.7) | 35 (17.2) | 88 (27.7) | < 0.01 |
| Hospital Location | ||||
| Urban | 487 (93.1) | 186 (91.2) | 299 (94.3) | Ref |
| Non-Urban | 36 (6.9) | 18 (8.8) | 18 (5.7) | 0.17 |
| Hospital Region | ||||
| Canada | 27 (5.3) | 13 (6.4) | 13 (4.2) | Ref |
| Northeast | 55 (10.7) | 22 (10.8) | 33 (10.7) | 0.40 |
| South | 204 (39.7) | 74 (36.5) | 129 (41.8) | 0.18 |
| Midwest | 31 (6.0) | 10 (4.9) | 21 (6.8) | 0.18 |
| West | 197 (38.3) | 84 (41.4) | 113 (36.6) | 0.48 |
*
Percentage values reflect each level’s proportion of the total number of respondents within a given column (floor vs. ICU). Discrepancies in column totals reflect a small amount of missing data for ICU admission (n=2), Training Level (n=13), Age (n=13), Gender (n=18), Number mTBI Children Cared for (n=14), Level 1 Trauma Center (n=12), Academic Medical Center (n=12), Independent Children’s Hospital (n=12), Hospital Location (n=13), and Hospital Region (n=22).
**
Not sure Counted as “Not Level 1”
***
“Not Sure” counted as no