Table 2 Descriptive data for first injury and the recurrent injury, year 1999 to 2012
From: Trauma recidivism at an emergency department of a Swedish medical center
First injuries | Recurrent injuries | P-value | |
|---|---|---|---|
Number | 58,922 (59.8 %) | 39,580 (40.2 %) | |
Proportion outpatient/in-hospital | 82.9 %/17.1 % | 78.5 %/21.5 % | 0.001 |
Hospital days mean ± SD | 9.7 ± 17.0 | 10.6 ± 16.4 | 0.001 |
Total hospital days | 97,768 (52 %) | 90,271 (48 %) | |
Injury types | |||
Fracture | 14,439 (24.5 %) | 9,728 (24.6 %) | |
Contusion | 12,351 (21.0 %) | 9,402 (23.8 %) | |
Wound | 13,039 (22.1 %) | 8,692 (22.0 %) | |
Sprain | 10,648 (18.1 %) | 5,998 (15.2 %) | |
Concussion | 1,862 (3.2 %) | 1,161 (2.9 %) | |
Foreign body | 1,420 (2.4 %) | 1,283 (3.2 %) | |
Thermo | 730 (1.2 %) | 465 (1.2 %) | |
Overstrain | 650 (1.1 %) | 448 (1.1 %) | |
Poison | 541 (0.9 %) | 805 (2.0 %) | |
Other | 3,242 (5.5 %) | 1,598 (4.0 %) | |