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Table 1 Patients and injury characteristics, clinical features and facility stay

From: The severe traumatic brain injury in Austria: early rehabilitative treatment and outcome

 

Group A (n = 16)

Group B (n = 34)

Group C (n = 12)

 

(n = 62a)

Parameter

 

mean ± SD

 

p-value*

n total

Age

37.31 ± 10.92 (n = 16)

37.83 ± 13.43 (n = 34)

47.56 ± 11.98 (n = 10)

0.061

60

GCS

5.07 ± 2.19 (n = 15)

5.86 ± 3.35 (n = 20)

6.70 ± 3.62 (n = 11)

0.568

46

PTAb

40.14 ± 26.46 (n = 14)

23.07 ± 10.63c (n = 28)

45.00 ± 28.65 (n = 6)

0.039

48

days to rehab. center

39.31 ± 18.50d

81.34 ± 53.42

80.45 ± 33.38

<0.001

62

urgent tract/d

53.13 ± 60.38

27.11 ± 54.94d

82.45 ± 57.54

0.001

62

days of rehab.

103.38 ± 49.46

85.74 ± 44.91

104.82 ± 37.64

0.304

62

Total/d

143.25 ± 56.37

158.51 ± 87.01

175.55 ± 50.67

0.325

62

AFIM

89.13 ± 44.99 (n = 16)

119.06 ± 37.01d (n = 34)

85.60 ± 32.43 (n = 11)

0.005

61

DFIM

127.25 ± 32.91 (n = 16)

125.54 ± 36.05 (n = 34)

122.40 ± 20.90 (n = 11)

0.149

61

GOSE

4.94 ± 1.29

5.29 ± 1.34

3.91 ± 1.04d

0.004

62

  1. an total of groups
  2. bPTA was in 12 cases delimitable and in two cases (both Group C) unknown
  3. csignificantly different from A
  4. dsignificantly different (post-hoc analysis)
  5. *One-way ANOVA