A profile of hospital-admitted paediatric burns patients in South Africa.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Injuries and deaths from burns are a serious, yet preventable health problem globally. This paper describes burns in a cohort of children admitted to the Red Cross Children's Hospital, in Cape Town, South Africa.This six month retrospective case note review looked at a sample of consecutively admitted patients from the 1 st April 2007 to the 30 th September 2007. Information was collected using a project-specific data capture sheet. Descriptive statistics (percentages, medians, means and standard deviations) were calculated, and data was compared between age groups. Spearman's correlation co-efficient was employed to look at the association between the total body surface area and the length of stay in hospital.

Findings

During the study period, 294 children were a

SUBMITTER: Parbhoo A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2893535 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature