Investigation of litigation in trauma orthopaedic surgery

Table 1 Baseline data of the patients

Variable	Frequency total = 228	aP
Gender		< 0.0001
Male	162
Female	66
Residence		0.0879
Urban	104
Rural	124
Occupation		0.1100
Heavy worker	54
Lightworker	102
Sedentary	48
Unknown	24
Comorbidities		< 0.0001
Yes	54
No	174
History of psychiatric disease		< 0.0001
Yes	12
No	216
Couse of injury		0.0110
Vehicle accident	156
Falling down	6
Occupational injury	42
Injury at home	24
Hospital of operation		0.2200
Government non-educational clinic	162
Government educational clinic	12
Private clinic	54

^aThe P value shows the significance of the association between each variable and litigation by chi-square test.