Demonstration of a Regional Burn Care System Task C-1, Part 2: Quantitative Assessment of Risk Factors in Burn Injury

摘要

The purpose of this investigation was to identify the high risk population in Virginia that was prone to develop minor and serious burn injuries. The burn population analyzed in this study were those persons who sustained minor burn injury requiring treatment in the emergency department and not requiring hospitalization as well as those persons with serious burns necessitating hospitalization. The populations in Virginia that exhibited a high risk for sustaining minor burn injuries were the white men ages 1 to 3 years and 15 to 40 years; white women ages 1 to 2 years and 15 to 30 years; nonwhite men ages 1 to 5 years and 15 to 60 years; and nonwhite women ages 1 to 3 years and 15 to 40 years. Serious burn injuries were encountered in the following high risk populations: white men ages 0 to 3 and 15 to 100 years; white women ages 0 to 2 years and 80 to 100 years; nonwhite men ages 0 to 4 years and 20 to 100 years; and nonwhite women ages 0 to 5 years and 40 to 50 years, 60 to 70 years, and 80 to 100 years. These high risk groups of patients were susceptible to specific types of burn injury. Other factors such as seasonal variation, patient occupation and scene of the accident contributed further to our understanding of the epidemiology of burn injury.