TABLE 3.
Multivariate Analysis Before and After Adjustment for Patient-Level Confounding Factors (Age, Sex, Altered Mental Status, Initial Loss of Consciousness, Posttraumatic Amnesia, Suspected Skull Fracture, Suspected Basilar Skull Fracture, Vomiting, Focal Neurologic Deficit, Abnormal Behavior, Severe Mechanism of Injury, Worsening Headache, and Triage)
| Quartiles | Before Adjustment |
After Adjustment |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OR | 95% CI |
OR | 95% CI |
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| Lower | Upper | Lower | Upper | |||
| RTS | ||||||
| RTS (1) | 2.218 | 1.123 | 4.055 | 8.463 | 2.783 | 25.736 |
| RTS (2) | 1.559 | 0.938 | 2.592 | 9.626 | 3.586 | 25.840 |
| RTS (3) | 1.102 | 0.665 | 1.826 | 4.683 | 1.804 | 12.159 |
| RTS (4) | 1.000 | 1.000 | ||||
| MFS | ||||||
| MFS (1) | 1.258 | 0.776 | 2.309 | 1.131 | 0.504 | 2.542 |
| MFS (2) | 0.972 | 0.571 | 1.654 | 2.142 | 0.866 | 5.296 |
| MFS (3) | 1.589 | 0.999 | 2.525 | 1.220 | 0.560 | 2.660 |
| MFS (4) | 1.000 | 1.000 | ||||
| Scores on the RTS and MFS for the 16 EPs were divided into quartiles | ||||||