Table 1

Baseline patient characteristics

CharacteristicNo. (%)*
Age, yr, mean ± SD38.0 ± 16.1
Laterality
 Left163 (55.8)
 Right129 (44.2)
Setting
 Inpatient58 (19.8)
 Outpatient234 (80.2)
Mechanism of injury†
 Motor vehicle accident80 (27.4)
 Sports injury63 (21.5)
 Bicycle injury45 (15.4)
 Miscellaneous fall onto shoulder36 (12.3)
 Repair of nonunion or malunion53 (18.1)

  • ORIF = open reduction and internal fixation; SD = standard deviation.

  • ↵* Unless indicated otherwise.

  • ↵† The 15 remaining ORIFs include charts where mechanism of injury was not identifiable, and rare events.