Burden of Road Traffic Injuries in Tanzania: One-Year Prospective Study of Consecutive Patients in 13 Multilevel Health Facilities

Table 1

RTI patient characteristics.

	N = 7,416
Sex^ň	n (%)
Male	5,862 (79.3%)
Female	1,529 (20.7%)
Age
Median (IQR) years	28 years (IQR: 22–38 years)
Age groups	n (%)
<5 years	146 (1.99)
5–14 years	482 (6.5)
15–24 years	1,922 (26.14)
25–34 years	2,426 (32.9)
35–44 years	1,154 (15.6)
45–54 years	658 (8.9)
55–64 years	308 (4.2)
>65 years	258 (3.5)
Triage level
Emergency	1,736 (23.4)
Priority	5,234 (70.6)
Queue	330 (4.5)
Referral status
Direct from crash site	6,455 (88.2)
Referred	867 (11.8)
Occupation
Petty trader	1,790 (25.3)
Driver	1,495 (21.1)
Farmer	1,322 (18.7)
Student	806 (11.4)
Manual laborer	221 (3.0)
Others^ρ	1,451(20.0)
Mode of arrival^Ħ
Motorcycle	2,347 (31.7)
Car	1,806 (24.5)
Tricycle	1,285 (17.3)
Minibus	781 (10.5)
Ambulance	497 (6.7)
Walk-in	323 (4.4)
Bus	10 (0.13)
Bicycle	16 (0.2)
Others	293 (3.95)

116 (1.6%) observations are missing triage status, ^ň25 (0.3%) are missing gender, and ^Ħ56 (0.8%) missing mode of arrival to EU. ^pincludes office worker, military, mining, craftsman, health worker, unemployed, retired individuals, housewife, unknown, and other unspecified.