Work

Description of Missouri children who suffer burn injuries

Year: 2000

Type: article

Abstract: 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.

Source: Injury Prevention

DOI: 10.1136/ip.6.4.255

Authors: K S Quayle, N A Wick, K A Gnauck, M Schootman, D M Jaffe

Institutions: Washington University in St. Louis, Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist, Wake Forest University

Language: English

Topic: Burn Injury Management and Outcomes

Subfield: Epidemiology

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDGs: Good health and well-being, Reduced inequalities

Open Access status: bronze

OpenAlex ID: W2129707956