Table 5.
Hospital utilization and discharge destination for patients who arrived on a spine board or without spinal immobilization.
| Parameter | Overall N (%) | Treatment Group | p Value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Spine Board N (%) | Spine Board N (%) | |||
| Number of observations | 277 (100%) | 252 (91.0%) | 25 (9.0%) | --- |
| Comfort care | 7 (2.5%) | 4 (1.6%) | 3 (12.0%) | 0.018 |
| Intensive care unit admission | 91 (32.9%) | 77 (30.6%) | 14 (56.0%) | 0.010 |
| Intensive care unit days | 1.2 ± 3.5 | 1.2 ± 3.5 | 2.0 ± 2.9 | 0.003 |
| Mechanical ventilation | 25 (9.0%) | 18 (7.1%) | 7 (28.0%) | 0.003 |
| Ventilator days | 0.5 ± 2.4 | 0.4 ± 2.4 | 1.2 ± 2.4 | 0.001 |
| Hospital length of stay (days) | 4.2 ± 7.2 | 4.1 ± 7.2 | 5.7 ± 6.8 | 0.083 |
| Mortality | 10 (3.6%) | 6 (2.4%) | 4 (16.0%) | 0.008 |
| Discharge destination1 | 1.000 | |||
| Home or home with health care | 181 (74.2%) | 167 (74.2%) | 14 (73.7%) | |
| Other facility or AMA2 | 63 (25.8%) | 58 (25.8%) | 5 (26.3%) | |
1
For discharge destination, only patients that survived hospitalization were included: N=244 for overall, N=225 for patients not on the spine board, and N=19 for patients on a spine board.
2
AMA: against medical advice.