Description of Missouri children who suffer burn injuries.
| Autor: | Quayle KS; Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine, USA. quayle@a1.kids.wustl.edu, Wick NA, Gnauck KA, Schootman M, Jaffe DM |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Zdroj: | Injury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention [Inj Prev] 2000 Dec; Vol. 6 (4), pp. 255-8. |
| DOI: | 10.1136/ip.6.4.255 |
| Abstrakt: | Objective: This study uses Missouri's inpatient and outpatient E code data system to describe the demographic characteristics of Missouri children who suffered burn injuries during 1994 and 1995. Methods: Retrospective review of Missouri E code data. Results: Altogether 8,404 children aged 0-14 years were treated for burn injuries in Missouri hospitals during 1994 and 1995. The rate of burn injury in Missouri children was 339 per 100,000/year. African-American boys 0-4 years living in urban counties were at increased risk. In addition, African-American girls ages 0-4 years living in counties with a high poverty rate had raised burn injury rates. Burns from hot objects and scalds from hot liquids caused more than half of the burns. Conclusions: Hospital based E coding has proven an invaluable tool for the study of burns and will, no doubt, prove equally useful for other injuries. |
| Databáze: | MEDLINE |
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