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Table 2 Injury presentation, epidemiology and hospitalisation characteristics for motorcyclists, vehicle occupants and bicyclists

From: Comparison of physical and psychological health outcomes for motorcyclists and other road users after land transport crashes: an inception cohort study

 

Motorcyclists (n = 628)

Vehicle occupants (n = 927)

Bicyclists (n = 299)

 

Mean (SD) or n (%)

Mean (SD) or n (%)

Mean (SD) or n (%)

Recruitment hospital

**

**

 RNSHa or RPAHb

285 (45.4)

399 (43.0)

258 (86.3)

 Orange, Dubbo, or Bathurst

174 (27.7)

98 (10.6)

17 (5.7)

 Other

159 (25.3)

350 (37.8)

14 (4.7)

 Non-hospital

10 (1.6)

80 (8.6)

10 (3.3)

 Psychological injury in crashe

87 (13.9)

295 (31.8)**

43 (14.4)

All body regions injurede

 Head or face

108 (17.2)

325 (35.1)**

113 (37.8)**

 Neck

80 (12.7)

505 (54.5)**

50 (16.7)

 Spine or back

171 (27.2)

477 (51.5)**

71 (23.8)

 Torso

256 (40.8)

495 (53.4)**

116 (38.8)

 Upper extremity

424 (67.5)

581 (62.7)

249 (83.3)**

 Lower extremity

451 (71.8)

386 (41.6)**

191 (63.9)*

Area of predominant injurye

**

**

 Multiple areas

43 (7.3)

126 (14.8)

28 (11.6)

 Head/face

16 (2.7)

76 (8.9)

32 (13.2)

 Neck

9 (1.5)

154 (18.1)

5 (2.1)

 Spine/back

30 (5.1)

74 (8.7)

10 (4.1)

 Torso

129 (22.0)

210 (24.7)

49 (20.2)

 Lower extremity

205 (35.0)

81 (9.5)

37 (15.3)

 Upper extremity

154 (26.3)

130 (15.3)

81 (33.5)

Hospital stay > 12 h

380 (60.5)

433 (46.8)**

125 (41.8)**

Length of stay (mean (SD))

3.34 (4.98)

1.9 (4.20)**

1.39 (2.33)**

Injury Severity Score (mean (SD))

4.5 (4.3)

3.0 (3.2)**

3.9 (3.2)**

Any ANFc or CTPd compensation claim

179 (28.5)

393 (42.4)**

66 (22.1)*

Any CTPd compensation claim

132 (21.0)

264 (28.5)**

47 (15.7)

  1. aRNSH Royal North Shore Hospital (Major Trauma Service, Metropolitan)
  2. bRPAH Royal Prince Alfred Hospital (Major Trauma Service, Metropolitan)
  3. c ANF Accident Notification Form. d CTP Compulsory Third Party. e Self-reported
  4. *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01 for the specific comparison of motorcyclists vs vehicle occupants and motorcyclists vs bicyclists