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Table 1 Demographics of Children Hospitalized from 2009 to 2014 with Traumatic Brain Injury Due to Unintentional Falls

From: Characterization of children hospitalized with traumatic brain injuries after building falls

Demographics

Building Falls (n = 933)

All Other Types of Falls (n = 22,880)

p-value* (Building vs Other)

Urban Building Falls (n = 707)

Non-urban Building Fallsa (n = 190)

p-value* (Urban vs Non-urban)

Gender (%)

 Male

619 (66.3)

13,484 (58.9)

< 0.01

466 (65.9)

127 (66.8)

NS

 Female

310 (33.2)

9357 (40.9)

237 (33.5)

63 (33.2)

 Unknown

4 (< 0.5)

39 (0.2)

4 (0.6)

0

Mean age in years (SD)

3.79 (2.9)

3.10 (3.9)

< 0.01

3.56 (2.8)

4.49 (3.4)

< 0.01

Race (%)

 White

513 (55.0)

15,265 (66.7)

< 0.01

338 (47.8)

149 (78.4)

< 0.01

 Black

205 (22.0)

3358 (14.7)

193 (27.3)

9 (4.7)

 Other

215 (23.0)

4257 (18.6)

176 (24.9)

32 (16.8)

Ethnicity (%)

 Hispanic/Latino

152 (16.3)

3690 (16.1)

NS

130 (18.4)

18 (9.5)

< 0.01

 Not Hispanic/Latino

657 (70.4)

16,044 (70.1)

486 (68.7)

140 (73.7)

 Unknown

124 (13.3)

3146 (13.8)

91 (12.9)

32 (16.8)

Payer type (%)

 Government

528 (56.6)

11,962 (52.3)

< 0.01

433 (61.2)

85 (44.7)

< 0.01

 Non-government

318 (34.1)

9390 (41.0)

225 (31.8)

69 (36.3)

 Self-pay

70 (7.6)

1250 (5.5)

37 (5.3)

31 (16.8)

 Unknown

17 (1.8)

257 (1.1)

12 (1.7)

5 (2.6)

RUCA Code

 Large Urban Core

707 (75.8)

16,986 (74.2)

NS

NA

NA

NA

 Small Suburban Area

76 (8.1)

2110 (9.2)

 Large Rural Town

53 (5.7)

1582 (6.9)

 Small Rural Town/

61 (6.5)

1472 (6.4)

 Isolated Rural Area

  

 Unknown

36 (3.9)

730 (3.2)

  1. Legend: SD standard deviation, NS not significant, NA not applicable, RUCA rural-urban commuting area
  2. *p -values obtained using Chi-square or Mann-Whitney U tests to evaluate for group differences
  3. aReflects children from Small Suburban Areas, Large Rural Towns, or Small Rural Town/Isolated Rural Areas