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Table 5 Demographics/visit characteristics of patients with/without repeat injuries

From: Child physical abuse screening in a pediatric ED; Does TRAIN(ing) Help?

 

Patients with repeat injury (n = 36)

Patients without repeat injury (n = 423)

p-value

Age (mean, SD)

3.7, 1.7

3.4, 1.7

0.28

Gender

  

0.05

 Male

15 (41.6%)

247 (58.5%)

 

 Female

21 (58.3%)

176 (41.4%)

 

Race

  

0.68

 White

19 (52.7%)

224 (52.8%)

 

 African American

2 (5.55%)

10 (2.36%)

 

 Asian

4 (11.1%)

54 (12.7%)

 

 American Indian

0 (0%)

2 (0.47%)

 

Pacific Islander

0 (0%)

0 (0%)

 

 Unknown

11 (30.5%)

133 (31.5%)

 

Ethnicity

  

0.04

 Hispanic

26 (72.2%)

204 (48.1%)

 

 Non-Hispanic

10 (27.7%)

214 (50.7%)

 

 Unknown

0 (0%)

5 (1.18%)

 

Insurance

  

0.17

 Private Insurance

5 (13.8%)

136 (32.2%)

 

 Public insurance

30 (83.3%)

273 (64.4%)

 

 Other

0 (0%)

1 (0.23%)

 

 Government (not Medicaid/Medicare)

0 (0%)

7 (1.65%)

 

 Self Pay

1 (2.77%)

6 (1.42%)

 

Skeletal Survey Performeda

  

0.19

 Yes

4 (11.1%)

88 (20.8%)

 

 No

32 (88.8%)

335 (79.1%)

 

SW/CPT consult

  

0.27

 Yes

4 (11.1%)

83 (19.6%)

 

 No

32 (88.8%)

340 (80.3%)

 

ICD-10 Categoryb

  

0.0004

 Open wounds/abrasion/laceration

3 (8.33%)

18 (4.2%)

 

 Contusion/ecchymosis (excluding head)

1 (2.77%)

20 (4.7%)

 

 Contusion/ecchymosis to head/face

6 (16.6%)

61 (14.4%)

 

 Fractures (excluding skull fractures)

1 (2.77%)

38 (8.9%)

 

 Major head Injury

3 (8.33%)

55 (13.0%)

 

 Minor head injury

24 (66.6%)

235 (55.5%)

 

 Burns

1 (2.77%)

9 (2.1%)

 

 Genital injury

0 (0%)

4 (0.9%)

 

 Oropharyngeal injury

1 (2.77%)

0 (0%)

 

 Foreign Body

0 (0%)

2 (0.4%)

 

 Other

0 (0%)

2 (0.4%)

 
  1. aReflecting ED skeletal surveys at initial visit
  2. bExcludes ICD codes of child abuse