Table 2:
Patient demographic and injury characteristics
| DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS | Overall n = 9754 |
Nonveteran n = 8278 |
Veterans n = 1476 |
Statistics* |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean age at injury ± SD (y) | 36.0±13.8 | 34.8±13.5 | 42.6±13.8 | p <.01 |
| n | Col % | Col% | ||
| Sex (%) | ||||
| Male | 7773 | 77.7 | 91.0 | p <.01 |
| Female | 1979 | 22.3 | 9.0 | |
| Unknown, transgendera | 2 | |||
| Race/Ethnicity (%) | ||||
| Hispanic | 988 | 10.5 | 8.1 | p <.01 |
| Non-Hispanic White | 6075 | 61.5 | 66.6 | |
| Non-Hispanic Black | 2306 | 23.9 | 22.2 | |
| Non-Hispanic Other | 385 | 4.1 | 3.1 | |
| Highest level of Ed at injury (%) | ||||
| Less than High School | 392 | 4.5 | 2.6 | p <.01 |
| Secondary Ed (some or completed) | 7027 | 76.3 | 75.4 | |
| Post-secondary Ed (some or completed) | 1416 | 15.0 | 17.3 | |
| Graduate (some or completed) | 390 | 4.1 | 4.7 | |
| Other/Unknowna | 529 | |||
| INJURY CHARACTERISTICS | ||||
| Etiology (%) | ||||
| Vehicular accident | 4428 | 45.8 | 43.3 | p <.01 |
| Violence | 1554 | 16.6 | 12.1 | |
| Sports | 898 | 9.6 | 7.2 | |
| Falls/Flying Objects | 2379 | 23.1 | 31.9 | |
| Other (Pedestrian, Med/Surg, Other) | 495 | 4.9 | 5.5 | |
| Neurological Impairment at D/C (%) | ||||
| Paraplegia, incomplete | 1790 | 19.3 | 18.8 | p <.01 |
| Paraplegia, complete | 2535 | 27.7 | 24.2 | |
| Paraplegia minimal deficit | 35 | 0.3 | 0.6 | |
| Tetraplegia, incomplete | 3237 | 33.7 | 40.3 | |
| Tetraplegia, complete | 1697 | 18.7 | 15.3 | |
| Tetraplegia, minimal deficit | 42 | 0.4 | 0.9 | |
| Normal (some minimal deficits)a | 6 | |||
| Unknown/Not donea | 412 |
a
Not included in statistical analyses
*
Chi-square test applies to categorical variables, and t-test to continuous variables