Impact of advanced trauma life support training on 30-day mortality in severely injured patients at a Kenyan tertiary center: a retrospective matched case-control study

Table 1 Baseline characteristics

Characteristic	Overall, N = 162	Pre-ATLS, N = 81¹	Post-ATLS, N = 81¹	p-value²
Age (years)	39 (28, 50)	38 (28, 47)	39 (29, 51)	0.4
Sex				0.6
Female	35 (22%)	16 (20%)	19 (23%)
Male	127 (78%)	65 (80%)	62 (77%)
Mechanism of injury				0.6
Assault	31 (19%)	18 (22%)	13 (16%)
Falls	10 (6.2%)	5 (6.2%)	5 (6.2%)
RTA	121 (75%)	58 (72%)	63 (78%)
Nature of injury				0.2
Blunt	138 (85%)	66 (81%)	72 (89%)
Penetrating	24 (15%)	15 (19%)	9 (11%)
Revised Trauma Score	7.84 (6.90, 7.84)	7.84 (6.90, 7.84)	7.84 (6.90, 7.84)	0.5
Injury Severity Score	22 (17, 27)	22 (17, 27)	22 (18, 27)	0.9

Table 1: ¹Median (IQR); n (%), ²Wilcoxon rank sum test; Pearson’s Chi-squared test
Data presented as median (IQR) or n (%)
RTA: Road Traffic Accident; ISS: Injury Severity Score; RTS: Revised Trauma Score

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