Age as the Impact on Mortality Rate in Trauma Patients

Table 1

Characteristics of patients compared between the survival group and death group.

Variables	Survival (n = 1,464)	Death (n = 59)	value
Age, years, median (IQR)	61 (50–74)	61 (52–77)	0.3294
Gender			0.259
Male	937 (64)	47 (71)
Precomorbidities, n (%)
Diabetic	203 (43.1)	8 (57.1)	0.3
Ischemic heart disease	73 (20.17)	5 (45.45)	0.042
Malignancy	42 (13.9)	1 (14.2)	0.88
Cirrhosis	18 (5.7)	0 (0)	0.547
Renal disease/kidney stone	52 (15.2)	6 (50)	0.001
Coagulopathy	20 (6.23)	1 (14.2)	0.389
COPD/asthma	58 (16.8)	1 (14.2)	0.859
CVA or TIA	85 (23.1)	4 (40)	0.216
Precomorbidities, n (%)
AIDS	9 (2.9)	0 (0)	0.671
Hypertension	436 (66.6)	17 (85)	0.085
DLP	257 (50.6)	8 (57.1)	0.634
Other	417 (66.5)	19 (76)	0.323
Unknown	115 (29)	21 (80.7)	<0.001
ISS, median (IQR)	9 (5–16)	29 (22–34)	<0.001
TIRSS, median (IQR)	0.9805 (0.9655–0.9928)	0.662 (0.2215–0.8836)	<0.001
Mechanism of injury, n (%)			0.031
Motor vehicle collision	127 (8.7)	3 (5.1)
Gunshot wound (GSW)	31 (2.1)	3 (5.1)
Fall from height	68 (4.6)	3 (5.1)
Stab wound (SW)	20 (1.4)	0
Ground-level falls	473 (32.3)	15 (25.4)
Pedestrian	45 (3.1)	0
Motorcycle/bicycle accident	518 (35.4)	33 (55.9)
Blast injury	18 (1.2)	0
Burn	14 (0.9)	1 (1.7)
Other	150 (10.3)	1 (1.7)
ICU stay, days, median (IQR)	0	2 (0–4)	<0.001
Hospital cost, USD, median (IQR)	1825 (776–4508)	3380 (1431–6809)	<0.001

Note: IQR, interquartile range; COPD, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; CVA, cerebrovascular accident; TIA, transient ischemic attack; AIDS, acquired immunodeficiency syndrome; DLP, dyslipidemia; ISS, injury severity score; TRISS, trauma and injury severity score; ICU, intensive care unit.