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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2022 Jan 25;92(6):1066–1074. doi: 10.1097/TA.0000000000003547

Figure 3: Mental Component Summary (MCS) Trajectories by Time Since Injury, Sex and Length of Stay.

Figure 3:

demonstrates that longer length of stay, female sex, and greater time since injury are associated with worse MCS scores. Males have higher scores at baseline than females, however both sexes demonstrate diminishing scores over time that extend to 20 years after injury. Length of hospital stay was categorized into quartiles and the 25th (12 days), 50th (22 days) and 75th (38 days) percentile values are represented in the figure.