Trends in demographics and outcome of patients presenting with traumatic brain injury
- Author:
Rachel KADAR
1
;
Daniel ROCHFORD
;
Ellen OMI
;
Yalaunda THOMAS
;
Kunal PATEL
;
Erik KULSTAD
Author Information
- Publication Type:Original Article
- Keywords: Brain injuries, traumatic; Patient outcome assessment; Demography; Emergency service, hospital
- MeSH: Brain Injuries; Dataset; Demography; Emergency Service, Hospital; Female; Humans; Illinois; Logistic Models; Male; Mortality; Odds Ratio; Patient Outcome Assessment; Public Health; Retrospective Studies; Tertiary Healthcare
- From: Clinical and Experimental Emergency Medicine 2019;6(2):113-118
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:English
- Abstract: OBJECTIVE: To analyze the trends in demographics and outcomes of patients presenting with traumatic brain injury by performing a retrospective database review of the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) Trauma Registry.METHODS: We utilized the IDPH Trauma Registry to retrieve data on patients treated for traumatic brain injuries at our large, tertiary care hospital from 2004 to 2012, inclusive. From this data, logistic regression models were used to analyze and compare basic demographics such as age, sex, and clinical outcome.RESULTS: Three thousand and thirty-nine patients were analyzed with a mean age of 43 (standard deviation, 24) and a median age of 41 (interquartile range, 23 to 60). Over the study period, patients’ age increased steadily from 32 to 49 years. The percentage of female patients increased, from 16.4% to 27.5% over the last 4 years. Overall mortality was greater for males than females (22.1% vs. 17.3%; odds ratio [OR], 1.36; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.10 to 1.68). Mortality decreased over the period (OR, 0.88; 95% CI, 0.85 to 0.91), with a greater decrease in females (OR, 0.84; 95% CI, 0.78 to 0.90) than in males (OR, 0.90; 95% CI, 0.86 to 0.94).CONCLUSION: Although the age of patients presenting with traumatic brain injury is increasing substantially, the data suggests that overall mortality appears to be decreasing, and this decrease appears to be greater in females than in males. These changes in trends found in the IDPH Trauma Registry supports the importance for further analysis of other reliable public datasets to identify areas of future study.
