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Patient, injury and treatment characteristics, by discharge contracture status.
| Category | No contracture N = 788 |
Contracture N = 415 |
P-value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Age | 37 (12) | 37 (11) | 0.59 |
| Percent male | 83 | 83 | 0.79 |
| TBSA | 15 (15) | 25 (18) | <0.01 |
| TBSA grafted | 5.7 (9) | 12.6 (12.2) | <0.01 |
| Percent with inhalation injury | 7 | 13 | <0.01 |
| Percent with co-morbidity | 24 | 30 | 0.03 |
| Days on mechanical ventilation | 1.8 (9.9) | 5.3 (13.2) | <0.01 |
| Percent with in-hospital complication(s) | 13 | 35 | <0.01 |
