Table 2.
Patient characteristics comparing Pre-COVID and COVID time periods.
| Patient Characteristics | Patients, No (%) |
||
|---|---|---|---|
| Pre-COVID |
COVID |
p value |
|
| n = 1020 | n = 1145 | ||
| Gender | 0.075 | ||
| Female | 322 (31.57%) | 403 (35.20%) | |
| Male | 697 (68.33%) | 742 (64.80%) | |
| Age (years), mean (SD) | 42.90 (25.96) | 43.44 (25.63) | 0.62 |
| Mechanism of Injury | |||
| Penetrating | 68 (6.7%) | 143 (12.5%) | <0.001 |
| Blunt | 920 (82.1%) | 971 (84.8%) | <0.001 |
| Crush | 7 (0.69%) | 5 (0.44%) | 0.57 |
| Burn | 20 (1.96%) | 27 (2.36%) | 0.56 |
| Other | 5 (0.49%) | 4 (0.35%) | 0.74 |
| Injury Circumstances | <0.001 | ||
| Accidents | 790 (86.4%) | 955 (83.3%) | |
| Assault/Abuse | 132 (12.9%) | 152 (13.2%) | |
| Self-inflicted/Suicide | 19 (1.86%) | 33 (2.88%) | |
| Post ED Disposition | <0.001 | ||
| Floor | 414 (40.59%) | 465 (40.65%) | |
| Intensive Care Unit (ICU) | 227 (22.25%) | 297 (25.96%) | |
| Interventional Radiology | 4 (0.39%) | 5 (0.44%) | |
| Observation Unit (ED Obs) | 1 (0.10%) | 3 (0.26%) | |
| Operating Room | 114 (11.18%) | 157 (13.72%) | |
| Other | 204 (20.00%) | 99 (8.65%) | |
| Step Down Unit | 56 (5.49%) | 118 (10.31%) | |
| Injury Severity Score (ISS), median (IQR) | 5.00 (4.00, 10.00) | 5.00 (4.00, 10.00) | 0.99 |
| ISS score | 0.55 | ||
| >15 | 151 (14.83%) | 180 (15.79%) | |
| Patient Outcomes | |||
| Length of Stay (LOS), median (IQR) | 3.00 (2.00, 6.00) | 3.00 (2.00, 6.00) | 0.27 |
| Intensive Care Unit Length of Stay (ICU LOS), median (IQR) | 2.00 (2.00, 5.00) | 2.00 (2.00, 4.00) | 0.19 |
| Days on Ventilator, median (IQR) | 3.00 (2.00, 8.00) | 3.00 (2.00, 8.00) | 0.58 |
| Co-morbidities | |||
| Substance abuse | 23 (2.25%) | 39 (3.41%) | 0.12 |
| Current smoker | 107 (10.49%) | 171 (14.93%) | 0.002 |
| COVID-19 Status | <0.001 | ||
| Positive | 0 (0.00%) | 7 (0.75%) | |
| Funding | <0.001 | ||
| Medicare | 253 (24.80%) | 283 (24.76%) | |
| Medicated | 237 (23.24%) | 295 (25.81%) | |
| Commercial | 226 (22.16%) | 165 (14.44%) | |
| HMO/PPO | 51 (5.00%) | 96 (8.40%) | |
| Other | 149 (14.61%) | 151 (13.21%) | |
| Uncompensated/Indigent | 104 (10.20%) | 153 (13.39%) | |
| Discharge to: | <0.001 | ||
| ED/Hospital Death | 24 (2.35%) | 38 (3.32%) | |
| Home | 654 (64.12%) | 803 (70.13%) | |
| Hospice | 5 (0.49%) | 6 (0.52%) | |
| Long Term Care Hospital | 10 (0.98%) | 16 (1.40%) | |
| Other | 186 (18.24%) | 105 (9.17%) | |
| Skilled Nursing Facility/Inpatient Rehabilitation | 141 (13.82%) | 177 (15.46%) | |