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Table 4 Number of repeated hospital admission among children with the discharge diagnosis of TBI according to birth order

From: The effect of birth order on length of hospitalization for pediatric traumatic brain injury: an analysis of the 1987 Finnish birth cohort

 

1987–1992*

1993–1998*

1999–2005*

1987–2005*

Birth order

One TBI

2–3 TBIs

4 TBIs or more

One TBI

2–3 TBIs

4 TBIs or more

One TBI

2–3 TBIs

4 TBIs or more

One TBI

2–3 TBIs

4 TBIs or more

First

72 (93.5%)

5 (6.5%)

0

155 (88.6%)

9 (5.2%)

11 (6.2%)

298 (82.6%)

40 (11.1%)

23 (6.3%)

525 (86.6%)

54 (8.8%)

34 (5.5%)

Second

94 (87%)

5 (4.6%)

9 (8.4%)

155 (94.5%)

9 (5.6%)

0

250 (85.0%)

30 (10.3%)

14 (4.7%)

499 (88.2%)

44 (7.8%)

23 (4.1%)

Third

43 (93.4%)

3 (6.6%)

0

70 (89.7%)

5 (6.5%)

3 (3.8%)

126 (81.8%)

17 (11.1%)

11 (7.1%)

239 (86.0%)

25 (9.0%)

14 (5.0%)

Fourth or higher

29 (87.8%)

3 (9.1%)

1 (3.1%)

39 (82.9%)

8 (17.1%)

0

61 (79.3%)

10 (12.9%)

6 (7.8%)

129 (82.2%)

21 (13.4%)

7 (4.5%)