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Table 1 Patient Demographics and Hospitalization Characteristics

From: Prevalence of ligamentous knee injuries in pedestrian versus motor vehicle accidents

 

Overall (N = 539)

No Ligamentous Knee Injury (N = 470)

Ligamentous Knee Injury (N = 69)

  

Count (%)

Count (%)

Count (%)

P-value

OR (95% CI)

Age

43.6

43.7

42.7

0.6425

 

Height (cm)

172.9

172.8

173.3

0.6949

 

Weight (kg)

82.2

81.8

84.75

.2707

 

Body Mass Index (BMI)

27.53

27.41

28.3

.3032

 

Sex

 Male

349 (64.7%)

305 (64.9%)

44 (63.8%)

0.9870

0.9 (0.5–1.7)

 Female

190 (35.3%)

165 (35.1%)

25 (36.2%)

  

Payor status

 Unfunded

211 (39.8%)

184 (39.8%)

27 (39.7%)

0.7380

0.9 (0.7–1.2)

 Medicaid

94 (17.7%)

80 (17.3%)

14 (20.6%)

  

 Medicare

96 (18.1%)

86 (18.6%)

10 (14.7%)

  

 private ins

126 (23.8%)

110 (23.8%)

16 (23.5%)

  

 Dept. of Corrections

3 (0.6%)

2 (0.4%)

1 (1.5%)

  

Hospital admission

 No

119 (22.1%)

115 (24.5%)

4 (5.8%)

0.0005

7.0 (2.1–22.5)

 Yes

420 (77.9%)

355 (75.5%)

65 (94.2%)

  

ICU care

 No

314 (58.3%)

285 (60.6%)

29 (42.0%)

0.0034

2.1 (1.3–3.6)

 Yes

225 (41.7%)

185 (39.4%)

40 (58.0%)

  

Discharge Disposition

 Home

338 (62.7%)

306 (65.1%)

32 (46.4%)

0.0546

0.8 (0.7–1.0)

 Long Term Acute Care Facility

28 (5.2%)

22 (4.7%)

6 (8.7%)

  

 Skilled Nursing Facility

21 (3.9%)

16 (3.4%)

5 (7.2%)

  

 Inpatient rehab

109 (20.2%)

89 (18.9%)

20 (29.0%)

  

 Hospital

17 (3.1%)

16 (3.3%)

1 (1.4%)

  

 Dept. of Correction

4 (.7%)

3 (.6%)

1 (1.4%)

  

 Death

22 (4.1%)

18 (3.8%)

4 (5.8%)

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