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Table 5 Cause of injury

From: Mortality in severely injured elderly patients: a retrospective analysis of a German level 1 trauma center (2002–2011)

Cause of injury

Total

Decedents

Survivors

p value

Traffic accident, car

3.7%

4.8%

2.2%

= 0.478

Traffic accident, motorcycle

1.9%

1.6%

2.2%

= 0.831

Traffic accident, bicycle

3.7%

3.2%

4.4%

= 0.760

Traffic accident, pedestrian

22.2%

21%

23.8%

= 0.716

Fall > 3m

10.2%

12.9%

6.5%

= 0.557

Fall < 3m

51.9%

50%

54.4%

= 0.618

Others

6.4%

6.5%

6.5%

= 0.577

  1. The total number of cases and proportion of cases in decedents and survivors are shown.