Description of Missouri children who suffer burn injuries.
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.
Quayle
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KS
Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine, USA. quayle@a1.kids.wustl.edu
Wick
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Gnauck
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Schootman
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Jaffe
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D002056:Burns / Q000453:epidemiology*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008923:Missouri / Q000453:epidemiology; D012189:Retrospective Studies