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Table 1 Study population characteristics

From: Association of Japan Coma Scale score on hospital arrival with in-hospital mortality among trauma patients

  Overall (n = 222,540)
Age (years), median (IQR) 62 (41, 77)
 16–39 (years), n (%) 53,071 (23.8)
 40–64 (years), n (%) 65,572 (29.5)
  ≥ 65 (years), n (%) 103,897 (46.7)
Male, n (%) 138,023 (62.0)
Blunt mechanism injury, n (%) 213,280 (95.8)
Systolic blood pressure (mmHg), median (IQR) 137 (117, 158)
  < 90 mmHg, n (%) 15,672 (7.0)
Heart rate (bpm), median (IQR) 83 (72, 96)
≥120 bpm, n (%) 12,883 (5.8)
Respiratory rate (cpm), median (IQR) 20 (17, 24)
 10–29 (cpm), n (%) 196,595 (88.4)
  < 10 (cpm), n (%) 3380 (1.5)
  ≥ 30 (cpm), n (%) 22,565 (10.1)
Japan Coma Scale
 0, n (%) 104,382 (46.9)
 1, n (%) 37,934 (17.0)
 2, n (%) 21,697 (9.7)
 3, (%) 13,929 (6.3)
 10, n (%) 14,875 (6.7)
 20, n (%) 4320 (1.9)
 30, n (%) 3549 (1.6)
 100, n (%) 5484 (2.5)
 200, n (%) 6810 (3.1)
 300, n (%) 9560 (4.3)
 One-digit (1, 2, 3), n (%) 73,560 (33.1)
 Two-digit (10, 20, 30), n (%) 22,744 (10.2)
 Three-digit (100, 200, 300), n (%) 21,854 (9.8)
Glasgow Coma Scale, median (IQR) 15 (13, 15)
  ≤ 8, n (%) 22,514 (10.1)
 Eye response, median (IQR) 4 (3, 4)
 Verbal response, median (IQR) 5 (4, 5)
 Motor response, median (IQR) 6 (6, 6)
Craniotomy, n (%) 7165 (3.2)
Head AIS score of 4 or 5, n (%) 39,151 (17.6)
Isolated severe TBI, n (%) 9849 (4.4)
Surgical or hemostatic intervention, n (%)
 Thoracotomy, n (%) 2033 (0.9)
 Laparotomy, n (%) 5976 (2.7)
 Angioembolization, n (%) 5879 (2.6)
Injury Severity Score, median (IQR) 10 (9, 18)
  ≤ 8, n (%) 42,332 (19.0)
 9–15, n (%) 92,531 (41.6)
 16≤, n (%) 87,677 (39.4)
In-hospital mortality, n (%) 15,860 (7.1)
  1. IQR Interquartile range, AIS Abbreviated Injury Scale, TBI traumatic brain injury