Table 1.
Basic characteristics of the 192 patients with traumatic chest injury.
| Variables | n (%) | Outcomes |
x2 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dead | Alive | |||
| Age (year) | 0.000 | |||
| ≤20 | 26(13.5) | 3 | 23 | |
| 21-35 | 96(50.0) | 23 | 73 | |
| 36-50 | 36(18.8) | 8 | 28 | |
| >50 | 34(17.7) | 19 | 15 | |
| Gender | 0.286 | |||
| Male | 141(73.4) | 36 | 105 | |
| Female | 51(26.6) | 17 | 34 | |
| Time spent between injury and admission to hospital (h) | 0.001 | |||
| <2 | 63(32.8) | 8 | 55 | |
| 2-6 | 67(34.9) | 29 | 38 | |
| 7-24 | 62(32.3) | 16 | 46 | |
| Length of hospital stay (d) | 0.004 | |||
| ≤2 | 25(13.0) | 14 | 11 | |
| 3-7 | 92(47.9) | 14 | 78 | |
| 8-14 | 39(20.3) | 10 | 29 | |
| 15-21 | 23(12.0) | 9 | 14 | |
| >21 | 13(6.8) | 6 | 7 | |