ArticlePloS one2018
Injury mechanisms, patterns and outcomes of older polytrauma patients-An analysis of the Dutch Trauma Registry.
Article in PloS one, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
32 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- The utilisation of international consensus definitions of the disease polytrauma: a systematic review.European journal of trauma and emergency surgery : official publication of the European Trauma Society · 2026Pooled it
- The development and internal validation of a model to predict functional recovery after trauma.PloS one · 2019Trial
- Polytrauma in the elderly: who is at risk? A case-control study.BMC geriatrics · 2026Article
- High Mortality and Medical Costs in Geriatric Trauma Patients: Surgical Treatment and Risk Factors from a Retrospective Cohort Study at a Level I Trauma Center.Annals of geriatric medicine and research · 2025Article
- Patterns of sex-specific outcomes and mortality in polytrauma: a demographic and epidemiologic analysis by injury severity score.European journal of trauma and emergency surgery : official publication of the European Trauma Society · 2025Observational
- Concomitant body-wide trauma patterns in patients with head and neck injuries: a comparison based on the trauma register DGU® by the German trauma society and the dortmund maxillofacial trauma registry.European journal of medical research · 2025Article
- Injury patterns and patient outcomes of abdominal trauma in the elderly population: a 5-year experience of a Major Trauma Centre.European journal of trauma and emergency surgery : official publication of the European Trauma Society · 2025Article
- Financial Cost of Treating Polytrauma in a Public Tertiary Hospital in the South-Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo: A Case Series Study.ClinicoEconomics and outcomes research : CEOR · 2025Article
- Evaluation of the role of repeated inferior vena cava sonography in estimating first 24 h fluid requirement in resuscitation of major blunt trauma patients in emergency department Suez Canal University Hospital.BMC emergency medicine · 2024Article
- Comorbidities, injury severity and complications predict mortality in thoracic trauma.European journal of trauma and emergency surgery : official publication of the European Trauma Society · 2023Article
- The effect of age on resilience of health-related quality of life among polytrauma patients: a cross-sectional multicenter study.European journal of trauma and emergency surgery : official publication of the European Trauma Society · 2023Article
- Risks in the Management of Polytrauma Patients: Clinical Insights.Orthopedic research and reviews · 2023Review
- Smoking is associated with an increased risk for fractures in women after childbirth: a nationwide population-based cohort study in Finland.Acta orthopaedica · 2022Article
- A retrospective cohort study of 27,049 polytraumatized patients age 60 and above: identifying changes over 16 years.European geriatric medicine · 2022Article
- Retrospective cohort study to determine the effect of preinjury antiplatelet or anticoagulant therapy on mortality in patients with major trauma.Frontiers in medicine · 2022Article
- Tranexamic acid for major trauma patients in Ireland.World journal of emergency medicine · 2022Article
- Short-term outcome following significant trauma: increasing age per se has only a relatively low impact.European journal of trauma and emergency surgery : official publication of the European Trauma Society · 2021Article
- Does the time of the day affect multiple trauma care in hospitals? A retrospective analysis of data from the TraumaRegister DGU®.BMC emergency medicine · 2021Article
- Retrospective Cohort Study of Frequency and Patterns of Orbital Injuries on Whole-Body CT with Maxillofacial Multi-Slice CT.Tomography (Ann Arbor, Mich.) · 2021Article
- Cost-effectiveness of a hybrid emergency room system for severe trauma: a health technology assessment from the perspective of the third-party payer in Japan.World journal of emergency surgery : WJES · 2021Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
6 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
backgroundPolytrauma patients nowadays tend to be older due to the growth of the elderly population and its improved mobility. The aim of this study was to compare demographics, injury patterns, injury mechanisms and outcomes between younger and older polytrauma patients.
methodsData from polytrauma (ISS≥16) patients between 2009 and 2014 were extracted from the Dutch trauma registry (DTR). Younger (Group A: ages 18-59) and older (Group B: ages ≥60) polytrauma patients were compared. Differences in injury severity, trauma mechanism (only data for the year 2014), vital signs, injury patterns, ICU characteristics and hospital mortality were analyzed.
resultsData of 25,304 polytrauma patients were analyzed. The older patients represented 47.8% of the polytrauma population. Trauma mechanism in the older patients was more likely to be a bicycle accident (A: 17%; B: 21%) or a low-energy fall (A: 13%; B: 43%). Younger polytrauma patients were more likely to have the worst scores on the Glasgow coma scale (EMV = 3, A: 20%, B: 13%). However, serious head injuries were seen more often in the older patients (A: 53%; B: 69%). The hospital mortality was doubled for the older polytrauma patients (19.8% vs. 9.6%).
conclusionElderly are involved more often in polytrauma. Although injury severity did not differ between groups, the older polytrauma patients were at a higher risk of dying than their younger counterparts despite sustaining less high-energy accidents.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.