Table 2.

Clinical characteristics of road traffic crashes related thoracic injuries in comparison with non-road traffic crashes related chest traumas

	RTCR chest trauma (n = 2108)	Non-RTCR chest trauma (n = 2987)	p
Gender (n, %)
Male	1476, 70.0%	2569, 86.0%	0.001
Female	632, 30.0%	418, 14.0%
Age (year)	51.1 ± 13.5	49.6 ± 14.7	0.001
Male	49.3 ± 13.3	48.2 ± 15.1	0.016
Female	55.3 ± 12.4	56.8 ± 14.7	0.086
Injury type (n, %)
Rib fracture	1571, 74.5%	2012, 67.4%	0.001
Pneumothorax	351, 16.7%	668, 22.4%	0.001
Hemopneumothorax	105, 5.0%	142, 4.8%	0.710
Lung contusion	45, 2.1%	76, 2.5%	0.344
Sternum fracture	65, 3.1%	40, 1.3%	0.001
Hemothorax	21, 1.0%	20, 0.7%	0.199
Associate injury (n, %)	1177, 55.8%	1472, 49.3%	0.001
Extremity fracture	912, 77.5%	1168, 79.3%	0.246
Abdominal	111, 9.4%	121, 8.2%	0.273
Clavicle fracture	94, 8.0%	116, 7.9%	0.920
Head and spinal	48, 4.1%	48, 3.3%	0.263
Facial	14, 1.2%	17, 1.2%	0.934
ISS	17.7 ± 9.4	13.6 ± 10.5	0.001

p < 0.05 are given in bold

Categorical data are presented as number and percent; continuous data are presented as mean ± SD

SD standard deviation, ISS injury severity score, RTCR road traffic crashes related