Research Article

[Retracted] Pattern and In-Hospital Mortality of Thoracoabdominal Injuries Associated with Motor Vehicle Accident-Related Head Injury: a Single-Center Retrospective Study

Table 5

Association between different variables and outcome of MVA-related HI with thoracoabdominal injuries ().

VariablesExpiredHomeTransferred value
No. (%)ARNo. (%)ARNo. (%)AR

Age
 <20 years2 (6.9)-1.424 (82.8)0.73 (10.3)0.80.438
 20–40 years7 (15.9)0.435 (79.5)0.22 (4.5)-1.0
 >40 years3 (27.3)1.37 (63.6)-1.31 (9.1)0.3
Gender
 Males11 (15.1)0.556 (76.7)-1.16 (8.2)1.00.335
 Females1 (9.1)-0.510 (90.9)1.10 (0.0)-1.0
Day of admission
 Weekday8 (12.5)-0.851 (79.7)0.45 (7.8)0.40.677
 Weekend4 (20.0)0.815 (75.0)-0.41 (5.0)-0.4
Hospital stay
 <10 days9 (32.1)3.319 (67.9)-1.70 (0.0)-1.80.001
 10–20 days1 (6.3)-1.015 (93.8)1.60 (0.0)-1.2
 >20 days2 (5.0)-2.332 (80.0)0.36 (15.0)2.7
ICU admission
 No1 (1.5)-6.764 (95.5)7.52 (3.0)-2.9<0.001
 Yes11 (64.7)6.72 (11.8)-7.54 (23.5)2.9
Type of head injury
 Extra-axial hematoma4 (26.7)-2.88 (53.3)-2.63 (20.0)2.10.087
 Multiple lesions4 (15.4)0.222 (84.6)0.90 (0.0)-1.7
 Unspecified0 (0.0)-0.72 (66.7)-0.51 (33.3)1.8
 Intra-axial lesion4 (14.3)0.023 (82.1)0.61 (3.6)-0.9
 Scalp injury0 (0.0)-0.84 (100.0)1.10 (0.0)-0.6
 Skull fracture0 (0.0)-1.27 (87.5)0.61 (12.5)0.6
Site of associated injury
 Chest9 (18.4)1.336 (73.5)-1.34 (8.2)0.40.284
 Abdomen3 (9.4)-1.028 (87.5)1.61 (3.1)-1.1
 Both0 (0.0)-0.72 (66.7)-0.51 (33.3)1.8
Other injuries
 Yes4 (11.4)-0.628 (80.0)0.33 (8.6)0.40.765
 No8 (16.3)0.638 (77.6)-0.33 (6.1)-0.4

AR: adjusted residual. Based on the likelihood ratio chi-square statistic, is significant.