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Table 1 Patients’ demographics

From: Trauma burden in Tanzania: a one-day survey of all district and regional public hospitals

Demographics

Number

(N = 508)

Percentage

(%)

Sex

 Male

286

56.3

 Female

222

43.7

Age Group

  < 5 Years

24

4.7

 5–15 years

95

18.7

 16–55 years

333

65.6

  > 55 years

56

11.0

Patients by Regiona

 Eastern Zone

151

29.7

 Northern Zone

68

13.4

 Lake zone

96

18.9

 Southern Zone

50

9.8

 Central Zone

50

9.8

 Southern Highlands zone

49

9.6

 Western Zone

44

8.7

  1. aThe number of patients per 100,000 populations is 2.0,1.1,1.5,1.3,1.5,1.0 and 0.7 for eastern, northern, lake, southern, central, southern highlands and western zone respectively