A Nationwide Population-Based Study of Corrosive Ingestion in Taiwan: Incidence, Gender Differences, and Mortality

Table 1

Demographic data of corrosive injury patients, 1996–2010, = 16,001.

Variables	(%); mean ± SD; range
Age	44.6 ± 20.9
0–18	1243 (7.8)
19–39	5918 (37.0)
40–64	5476 (34.2)
Above 65	3364 (21.0)
Sex
Male	7010 (43.8)
Female	8991 (56.2)
Hospital characteristics
Medical center	14,128 (88.3)
Regional hospital	1768 (11.0)
Local hospital	103 (0.6)
Clinics	2 (0.1)
Socioeconomic status
Low-income households	271 (1.7)
Non-low-income households	15730 (98.3)
Suicide	6134 (38.3)
In-hospital mortality	754 (4.7)
Length of stay	9.16 ± 11.33 (0–109)

Mean ± standard deviation (SD).