Table 4.
Fatal and nonfatal injury hospitalization-related variables by income level between 1998 and 2015 in Taiwan (n = 4,647,058).
| Prognosis | Overall |
p Value |
Nonfatal (Survival) |
p Value |
Fatal (Mortality) |
p Value |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Incomes | Low-Income (n = 74,337) |
Nonlow-Income (n = 4,572,721) |
Low-Income (n = 71,640) |
Nonlow-Income (n = 4,477,412) |
Low-Income (n = 2697) |
Nonlow-Income (n = 95,309) |
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| Variables | N | % | N | % | N | % | N | % | N | % | N | % | |||
| Surgical operation | <0.001 | <0.001 | 0.002 | ||||||||||||
| Yes | 30,930 | 41.6 | 2,351,342 | 51.4 | 41,699 | 58.2 | 2,163,734 | 48.3 | 1708 | 63.3 | 57,645 | 64.1 | |||
| No | 43,407 | 58.4 | 2,221,379 | 48.6 | 29,941 | 41.8 | 2,313,678 | 51.7 | 989 | 36.7 | 37,664 | 35.9 | |||
| Level of care | <0.001 | <0.001 | <0.00 | ||||||||||||
| Medical center | 15,804 | 21.3 | 1,330,952 | 29.1 | 15,127 | 21.1 | 1,291,532 | 28.8 | 677 | 25.1 | 39,420 | 41.4 | |||
| Regional hospital | 33,283 | 44.8 | 1,900,118 | 41.6 | 31,987 | 44.6 | 1,859,108 | 41.5 | 1296 | 48.1 | 41,010 | 43.0 | |||
| Local hospital | 25,250 | 34.0 | 1,341,651 | 29.3 | 24,526 | 34.2 | 1,326,772 | 29.6 | 724 | 26.8 | 14,879 | 15.6 | |||
| Hospitalization area | <0.001 | <0.001 | <0.001 | ||||||||||||
| Northern | 24,020 | 32.3 | 1,628,638 | 35.6 | 22,906 | 32.0 | 1,588,596 | 35.5 | 1114 | 41.3 | 40,042 | 42.0 | |||
| Central | 18,358 | 24.7 | 1,406,942 | 30.8 | 17,798 | 24.8 | 1,381,480 | 30.9 | 560 | 20.8 | 25,462 | 26.7 | |||
| Southern | 21,881 | 29.4 | 1,239,379 | 27.1 | 21,151 | 29.5 | 1,215,061 | 27.1 | 730 | 27.1 | 24,318 | 25.5 | |||
| Eastern | 9359 | 12.6 | 273,914 | 6.0 | 9081 | 12.7 | 268,672 | 6.0 | 278 | 10.3 | 5242 | 5.5 | |||
| Outer islands | 719 | 1.0 | 23,848 | 0.5 | 704 | 1.0 | 23,603 | 0.5 | 15 | 0.6 | 245 | 0.3 | |||
| Medical care utilization | |||||||||||||||
| Length of stays (day) |
9.9 ± 11.5 | 7.6 ± 8.9 | <0.001 | 9.7 ± 11.3 | 7.5 ± 8.7 | <0.001 | 13.8 ± 15.9 | 13.1 ± 15.4 | <0.001 | ||||||
| Medical expenses (USD) | 1681.5 ± 2880.3 | 1573.9 ± 2873.5 | <0.001 | 1551.2 ± 2520.1 | 1480.3 ±2565.4 | <0.001 | 5968.6 ± 8201.8 | 5143.0 ± 6896.0 | <0.001 | ||||||
p value: Chi-square/Fisher exact test on categorical variables and t-test on continuous variables.