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Table 1 Age, sex, recovery status, and EQ-5D HRQoL of POIS participants and general population survey respondents

From: Retrospective evaluation versus population norms for the measurement of baseline health status

 

Pre-injury

5-monthspost-injury

12-monthspost-injury

NZ generalpopulationsurvey

Total

2842

1470

2262

1250

Age:

    

18-24

14.4%

13.1%

12.1%

7.0%

25-34

20.8%

19.5%

19.5%

13.3%

35-44

22.5%

23.5%

22.5%

20.4%

45-54

24.5%

26.5%

26.3%

20.2%

55-64

17.8%

17.4%

19.6%

16.4%

65+

–

–

–

21.0%

Not reported

–

–

–

1.8%

Sex:

    

Male

61.4%

60.8%

58.9%

42.7%

Female

38.6%

39.2%

41.1%

56.0%

Not reported

–

–

–

1.3%

Recovery Status:

 

n = 1248

n = 1937

 

Recovered

 

23.0%

36.4%

 

Not recovered

 

77.0%

63.6%

 

Injury Type:

    

Intracranial

3.7%

3.7%

3.8%

 

Head/necksuperficial

3.6%

3.2%

3.6%

 

Spine dislocation,sprain, or strain

16.1%

15.3%

15.9%

 

Upper extremityfracture

17.7%

20.5%

17.6%

 

Upper extremitydislocation,sprain, or strain

14.3%

15.1%

13.7%

 

Upper extremityopen wound

6.0%

6.1%

5.8%

 

Upper extremitysuperficial

5.0%

4.8%

4.9%

 

Lower extremityfracture

17.2%

18.0%

18.1%

 

Lower extremitydislocation, sprain,or strain

24.6%

21.9%

25.2%

 

Lower extremityopen wound

4.0%

3.9%

3.9%

 

Lower extremitysuperficial

6.6%

6.3%

6.5%

 

Other injuryregion/nature

17.1%

19.3%

17.4%

 

UnadjustedEQ-5Dsocial tariff

0.94

0.75

0.78

0.82

  1. Percentages may not add to 100 due to rounding.For injury types, percentages do not add to 100 as each individual can have more than one injury type recorded.