Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine

Table 2 Standard Mortality Ratio (SMR) and excess death rate until 90 days after injury

From: Mortality, risk factors and causes of death in Swedish patients with open tibial fractures - a nationwide study of 3, 777 patients

Age	Gender	Person-years	Deaths	SMR (95%-CI)	Expected deaths	Excess deaths	Excess death rate
15–39	males	286	5	28 (10–62)	0.178	4.822	1686
15–39	females	79	2	80 (13–264)	0.025	1.98	2532
40–64	males	270	8	6.8 (3.2–13)	1.17	6.83	2527
40–64	females	121	3	6.8 (1.7–19)	0.44	2.56	2119
65+	males	75	25	13 (9–19)	1.88	23.12	30,824
65+	females	111	26	22.6 (15–74)	1.15	24.85	22,387

SMR and excess death rate in different age and gender groups until 90 days after injury. CI confidence interval

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