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Table 3 Hospitalizations due to road traffic injuries (ISS 16+): Hospitalization characteristics and in-hospital mortality by ethnic group

From: Inequality in in-hospital mortality due to road traffic accident between ethnic populations in specified groups living in the same country

Variable ab

Total (N = 11,523, 100%)

Arabs (n = 3372, 29.3%)

Jews (n = 8151, 70.7%)

p-value

%

%

%

Means of evacuation

p < 0.0001

 Ambulance EMS

76.1

68.0

79.5

 Helicopter EMS

7.1

11.2

5.5

 Private car/others

16.7

21.8

14.2

 Transferred from another hospital (yes)

16.4

21.8

14.2

P < 0.0001

Patient arrival time at hospital

P < 0.0001

 Weekday

27.8

22.4

30.0

 Weeknight

33.0

34.8

32.3

 Weekend

39.2

42.8

37.7

 Treated in trauma resuscitation unit (yes)

72.7

79.9

69.8

P < 0.0001

 ICU admission (yes)

54.2

61.0

51.4

p < 0.0001

 Undergoing surgery (yes)

46.8

51.7

44.8

p < 0.0001

 Hospital LOS for 7 days or more (yes)

58.5

58.7

58.5

P = 0.8306

 Hospital LOS for 14 days or more (yes)

33.4

33.5

33.3

P = 0.7708

 CT MRI US X-ray performed in ED (yes)

94.3

94.6

94.1

P = 0.3328

 Hospital type Level I trauma center

75.0

76.0

74.5

P = 0.0818

 Level II trauma center

25.0

24.0

25.5

 In-hospital mortality (yes)

8.7

8.2

8.9

P = 0.2427

  1. aAbbreviations: EMS emergency medical service, ICU intensive care unit, LOS length of stay, CT MRI US X-ray-computed tomography scan or magnetic resonance imaging or ultrasound or X-ray examination combined together, ED-emergency department
  2. bThere were no missing data for the variables presented except for transfer from another hospital, hospital arrival time and LOS for 7 days or more, which had missing values for 25 (0.217%), 3 (0.026%) and 2 (0.017%) observations, respectively