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Description of Missouri children who suffer burn injuries

¹ Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine
² Division of Health Behavior Research, Department of Internal Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine
³ Department of Emergency Medicine, Bowman Gray School of Medicine

Correspondence to:
Dr Kimberly S Quayle, Division of Emergency Medicine, St Louis Children's Hospital, One Children's Place, St Louis, Missouri 63110–1077, USA (
quayle{at}a1.kids.wustl.edu)

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 8404 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.

Keywords: burns; E codes

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