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Table 2 Locations of bodily injuries, abbreviated injury scale and cumulative number of injuries

From: Factors associated with an unfavourable outcome in elderly intensive care traumatic brain injury patients. a retrospective multicentre study

  

 ≥ 65 years

 

Variables

Total (n = 349)

GOSE score ≤ 4 (n = 233)

Number of patients with data

GOSE score ≥ 5 (n = 116)

Number of patients with data

p

Location of other bodily injuries

  

233

 

116

 

-Facial

140 (40.1)

90 (38.6)

 

50 (43.1)

 

0.422

-Chest

160 (45.8)

102 (43.8)

 

58 (50.0)

 

0.272

-Abdominal

86 (24.6)

50 (21.5)

 

36 (31.0)

 

0.051

-Extremity

136 (39.0)

80 (34.3)

 

56 (48.3)

 

0.012

-External

111 (31.8)

71 (30.5)

 

40 (34.5)

 

0.449

Abbreviated injury scale

-Head

4 [3–5]

4 [4–5]

 

3 [2–4]

 

 < 0.001

-Facial

2 [1–3]

2 [1–3]

 

1 [1–2]

 

0.192

-Chest

3 [1–3]

3 [2–3]

 

3 [1–4]

 

0.887

-Abdominal

2 [1–3]

1 [1–3]

 

2 [1–3]

 

0.940

-Extremity

2 [1–3]

2 [1–3]

 

2 [1–3]

 

0.683

-External

1 [1–2]

1 [1–2]

 

1 [1–1]

 

0.234

Number of associated injuries

  

233

 

116

0.336

None*

106 (30.4)

75 (32.2)

 

31 (26.7)

  

1

64 (18.3)

48 (20.6)

 

16 (13.8)

  

2

93 (26.6)

59 (25.3)

 

34 (29.3)

  

3

18 (5.2)

11 (4.7)

 

7 (6.0)

  

4

11 (3.2)

6 (2.6)

 

5 (4.3)

  

5

57 (16.3)

34 (14.6)

 

23 (19.8)

  
  1. Data are expressed as the median (25-75th percentile) and number (percentage). * Traumatic brain injury regardless of the AIS score for other injuries