Factors influencing injury severity score regarding Thai military personnel injured in mass casualty incident April 10, 2010: lessons learned from armed conflict casualties: a retrospective study

Table 1 Characteristics data of Thai military personnel injured in MCI

Parameter	ISS category		Overall (N = 153)	P value^§
	ISS < 16 (n = 135)	ISS ≥ 16 (n = 18)
Age group (years)				0.04
Below 25	88	8	96
25-34	21	6	27
35-44	7	3	10
45 and older	19	1	20
Mechanism of injury				0.69
Personal assault	5	0	5
Gunshot	9	1	10
Blast	121	17	138
Prehospital time (minutes)*				0.29
≤ 30	19	1	20
31-60	19	5	24
61-720	59	6	65
> 720	25	5	30

* Missed prehospital time of 14 from 153 cases due to unreliable accuracy of time record, the remaining accurate prehospital time was 139 cases
^§ Considered to be statistically significant when P value < 0.05

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