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Table 4 Number of deathsa and age-standardized mortality rates per million person years due to all injuries and TSCI with proportions of TSCI-related age-standardized mortalities, stratified by country

From: Mortality due to traumatic spinal cord injuries in Europe: a cross-sectional and pooled analysis of population-wide data from 22 countries

Country

TSCI

ALL INJURIES

Percent TSCI MR/All injury MRb (95% CI)

Number of deaths

Age-standardized rate

(95% CI)

Number of deaths

Age-standardized rate

(95% CI)

Austria

60

7.6 (5.8 to 9.8)

3181

392.2 (378.6 to 406.1)

1.9 (1.5 to 2.4)

Belgium

59

5.8 (4.4 to 7.5)

3558

340.5 (329.4 to 351.9)

1.7 (1.3 to 2.1)

Croatia

37

9.2 (6.5 to 12.7)

2033

493.6 (472.3 to 515.6)

1.9 (1.4 to 2.5)

Cyprus

1

1.7 (0.0 to 9.7)

222

309.6 (269.0 to 355.0)

0.6 (0.0 to 2.7)

Czech Republic

97

10.3 (8.4 to 12.6)

3538

360.0 (348.1 to 372.1)

2.9 (2.4 to 3.4)

Denmark

31

5.9 (4.0 to 8.4)

1143

218.7 (206.2 to 231.8)

2.7 (2.0 to 3.6)

Estonia

5

3.8 (1.2 to 9.1)

384

293.5 (264.9 to 324.5)

1.3 (0.5 to 2.8)

Finland

111

21.4 (17.6 to 25.7)

1919

364.1 (348.0 to 380.8)

5.9 (5.0 to 6.8)

Germany

509

5.9 (5.4 to 6.4)

21,229

246.4 (243.1 to 249.8)

2.4 (2.2 to 2.6)

Ireland

14

4.2 (2.2 to 7.1)

592

169.3 (155.6 to 184.0)

2.5 (1.4 to 3.9)

Italy

282

4.4 (3.9 to 5.0)

18,922

301.0 (296.7 to 305.3)

1.5 (1.3 to 1.6)

Latvia

6

2.9 (1.1 to 6.5)

755

367.7 (341.9 to 395.1)

0.8 (0.3 to 1.7)

Lithuania

32

10.6 (7.3 to 15.1)

1242

417.4 (394.4 to 441.3)

2.6 (1.8 to 3.4)

Netherlands

50

3.4 (2.5 to 4.5)

4612

308.7 (299.9 to 317.8)

1.1 (0.8 to 1.4)

Portugal

25

2.4 (1.5 to 3.5)

2635

249.5 (240.0 to 259.2)

1.0 (0.6 to 1.4)

Romania

118

6.4 (5.3 to 7.6)

4987

258.4 (251.2 to 265.7)

2.5 (2.1 to 2.9)

Slovakia

28

6.8 (4.4 to 9.9)

2072

454.0 (434.1 to 474.6)

1.5 (1.0 to 2.1)

Slovenia

20

10.7 (6.5 to 16.7)

793

417.5 (388.9 to 447.9)

2.6 (1.7 to 3.7)

Sweden

75

8.1 (6.4 to 10.1)

2658

285.7 (275.0 to 296.8)

2.8 (2.3 to 3.4)

Switzerland

92

12.9 (10.4 to 15.8)

4058

549.5 (532.7 to 566.8)

2.3 (1.9 to 2.8)

Turkey

35

1.0 (0.7 to 1.4)

11,096

220.5 (215.8 to 225.2)

0.4 (0.3 to 0.6)

United Kingdom

153

2.7 (2.3 to 3.2)

10,653

183.2 (179.8 to 186.8)

1.5 (1.3 to 1.7)

Overallc

1840

6.7 (5.2 to 8.2)

102,282

327.3 (285.6 to 369.0)

2.0 (1.8 to 2.2)

  1. TSCI Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury, CI Confidence Interval
  2. aWe only included those cases where the cause of death has been defined by a specific ICD diagnostic code; cases where the cause was defined as “other and unspecified effects of external causes” or any of the ICD codes of T15-T78 and T80-T88 were excluded
  3. bPercent of age-standardized TSCI related mortality rate out of age-standardized all injury related mortality rate
  4. cPooled age-standardized mortality rates estimated using the random effects model
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