Table 5.
Factors associated with management outcome of injury related to RTA at JUMC, Jimma, Southwest Ethiopia, 2021.
| Variables | Victims’ outcome (%) |
AOR (95% CI) | P-value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Favorable | Unfavorable | ||||
| Anatomical sites | Extremity | 44.7 | 7.7 | 1 | 0.03 |
| Pelvic area | 5.3 | 7.7 | 7.72(1.29,46.13) | ||
| Head injury | 13.2 | 23.1 | 16.61(3.85,71.71) | <0.01 | |
| Mechanism of Injury | Fall down | 17.9 | 38.5 | 0.23(0.08,0.68) | 0.01 |
| Roll over | 22.6 | 30.8 | 0.31(0.10,0.95) | 0.14 | |
| Collision | 38.7 | 15.4 | 1 | ||
| Time of accident | Night | 65.1 | 53.8 | 2.79(1.06,7.34) | 0.04 |
| Day | 34.9 | 46.2 | |||
| The time it takes | ≤ 1 hour | 54.7 | 15.4 | 1 | 0.03 |
| > 1 hours | 45.3 | 84.6 | 3.30(1.13, 9.60) | ||
| Condition of a patient at ED | Stable | 54.7 | 15.4 | 1 | <0.001 |
| Unstable | 45.3 | 84.6 | 7.78(2.33,26.06) | ||
| Type of Rx given | Conservative | 8.5 | 15.4 | 1 | |
| Surgical | 75.5 | 38.5 | 0.23(0.07,0.81) | 0.02 | |
| Medical | 16.0 | 46.2 | 1.15(0.31,4.19) | 0.84 | |
| Mental status (GCS) on admission | Mild | 51.9 | 23.1 | 1 | <0.001 |
| Moderate | 38.7 | 23.1 | 1.50(0.55,4.07) | ||
| Severe | 9.4 | 53.8 | 20.12(7.23,55.96) | ||
| Days spent in hospital | ≤ 14 days | 39.6 | 23.1 | 6.85(5.81,8.06) | <0.001 |
| > 14 days | 60.4 | 76.9 | 1 | ||