An outreach burn prevention program for home care patients.
Residential fires are the major cause of death from fires and burns in the United States, accounting for nearly two-thirds of annual fatalities. High-risk groups are more accessible now to burn prevention programs because of increasing home health care. Our burn prevention program, directed at homebound patients cared for by our hospital-based home care staff, combines fire safety education and smoke detector installation for this designated high-risk population. The combining of home health care with burn prevention activities has proven to be an effective means of reaching thousands of high-risk homes per year. We believe this approach would be equally effective in other areas.
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Barnes Hospital Burn Center, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO 63110.
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D000368:Aged; D002056:Burns / Q000517:prevention & control*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005390:Fires / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006299:Health Services for the Aged; D006699:Home Care Services; D006801:Humans; D008923:Missouri; D012307:Risk Factors