Population, injury and hospital service utilization characteristics by external cause of injury
| External cause of injury | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | Driver | Passenger | Motorcycle | Bicycle | Pedestrian | Other | |
| ICU, intensive care unit; IQR, interquartile range; ISS, injury severity score; LOS, length of stay. | |||||||
| No (%) population | 17459 (100) | 4471 (25.6) | 3295 (18.9) | 1830 (10.5) | 1904 (10.9) | 4881 (28.0) | 1078 (6.2) |
| Age (years) | |||||||
| 0–14 | 25.0 | 0.0 | 24.1 | 1.5 | 64.6 | 43.2 | 18.9 |
| 15–29 | 36.4 | 49.5 | 41.0 | 68.2 | 16.8 | 15.3 | 44.6 |
| 30–44 | 16.2 | 27.1 | 14.9 | 18.9 | 7.4 | 9.3 | 17.8 |
| 45–59 | 10.6 | 15.0 | 10.3 | 9.2 | 5.0 | 9.2 | 10.9 |
| 60+ | 11.8 | 8.4 | 9.7 | 2.2 | 6.2 | 23.0 | 7.8 |
| Male (%) | 69 | 76 | 50 | 89 | 84 | 62 | 69 |
| Severity, ISS 16+ (%) | 18 | 20 | 19 | 14 | 10 | 21 | 14 |
| Operation (%) | 31 | 29 | 26 | 49 | 23 | 33 | 31 |
| Stay in ICU (%) | 14 | 14 | 15 | 10 | 7 | 18 | 12 |
| Median (IQR) LOS in days | 3 (1–8) | 3 (1–8) | 3 (1–7) | 4 (2–8) | 2 (1–4) | 4 (1–10) | 2 (1–6) |
| Inpatient death (%) | 3.3 | 2.7 | 2.6 | 2.2 | 1.6 | 6.0 | 1.2 |