Table 5.
Previous research focusing on early mortality after traumatic cervical spine injury in older patients.
| Study | Study Design | Number | Early Mortality Rate | Definition of Early Mortality |
Average Age | Sex (Male) | Cervical Spine Fracture | Complete Spinal Cord Injury | Incomplete Spinal Cord Injury | Neurologically Intact |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jacskon et al., 2005 [15] |
Retrospective single-center study |
74 | 12.2% | Death in hospital | N/A | N/A | N/A | 27.0% | 40.5% | 32.4% |
| Sokolowski et al., 2007 [16] |
Retrospective single-center study |
193 | 14.0% | Death in hospital | N/A | N/A | N/A | 17.1% | 35.6% | 47.2% |
| Daneshvar et al., 2013 [17] | Two-center retrospective study |
37 | 38.0% | Death in hospital | 75.0 | 78.4% | 100% | 40.5% | 59.5% | 0% |
| Asemota et al., 2018 [18] |
Retrospective study using a nationwide database |
167,278 | 11.3% | Death in hospital | 81.0 | 75.4% | 100% | 0.9% | 7.8% | 91.3% |
| Bokhari et al., 2018 [19] |
Retrospective single-center study |
225 | 14.2% | Death in hospital | 79.7 | 50.2% | 97.3% | 2.2% | 13.8% | 84.0% |
| Inglis et al., 2020 [20] |
Retrospective multicenter study |
1340 | 9.6% | Death in hospital | 74.6 | 71.4% | 56.8% | 17.5% | 61.2% | 21.3% |
| This study | Retrospective multicenter study |
1512 | 4.0% | Death within 90 days after injury |
75.8 | 66.6% | 55.2% | 8.4% | 60.9% | 30.7% |
N/A, not applicable.