[Epidemiology of burns in France].
As with most traumas, the epidemiology of the "burn" health-event has long been neglected by public health doctors and rarely considered by burns specialists. There were therefore few verified data and many approximations and preconceived ideas. The gathering of information recently undertaken in France enables the reliability of the data to be improved and the diagnostic and demographic elements relating to hospitalised patients with burns to be established.
Centre Hospitalier Saint-Joseph Saint-Luc, Lyon. jacques.latarjet@wanadoo.fr
Jacques
J
Latarjet
François
F
Ravat
D002056:Burns / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology; D005602:France / Q000453:epidemiology; D006760:Hospitalization / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence