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. 2000 Dec;6(4):255-8.
doi: 10.1136/ip.6.4.255.

Description of Missouri children who suffer burn injuries

K S Quayle  1 , N A Wick, K A Gnauck, M Schootman, D M Jaffe
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Description of Missouri children who suffer burn injuries

K S Quayle et al. Inj Prev. 2000 Dec.

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.

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