Clinical Study
TEFTOM: A Promising General Trauma Expectation/Outcome Measure—Results of a Validation Study on Pan-American Ankle and Distal Tibia Trauma Patients
Table 1
Patient baseline sociodemographic characteristics.
| | Characteristics | |
| | Gender, number (%) | | | Female | 90 (44.8) | | Male | 111 (55.2) | | Age (years) | | | Mean (SD) | 41 (15) | | Median (range) | 41 (18; 82) | | Race, number (%) | | | Caucasian | 161 (80.1) | | Other | 40 (19.9) | | Marital status, number (%) | | | Married | 95 (47.3) | | Single (never married) | 70 (34.8) | | Divorced/widowed/separated | 36 (17.9) | | Highest qualification obtained, number (%) | | | Primary school | 30 (14.9) | | High school | 97 (48.3) | | Undergraduate | 50 (24.9) | | Graduate/postgraduate | 24 (11.9) | | Employed, number (%) | | | Yes | 143 (71.1) | | No | 58 (28.9) | | Annual household income, number (%) | | | Up to $25,000 | 49 (25.3) | | $25,001–$75,000 | 84 (43.3) | | Higher than $75,000 | 61 (31.4) |
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SD: standard deviation; TEF: Trauma Expectation Factor; TOM: trauma outcome measure.
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