title: Description of Missouri children who suffer burn injuries.
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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine, USA. quayle@a1.kids.wustl.edu
authors.forename: K S
authors.initials: KS
authors.lastname: Quayle
authors.forename: N A
authors.initials: NA
authors.lastname: Wick
authors.forename: K A
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Gnauck
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Schootman
authors.forename: D M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Jaffe
mesh_terms: D002056:Burns / Q000453:epidemiology*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008923:Missouri / Q000453:epidemiology; D012189:Retrospective Studies