Injury Epidemiology & Prevention Research Center, Statistics and Epidemiology Department, School of Health & Nutrition, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran.
Burns. 2012 May;38(3):319-29. doi: 10.1016/j.burns.2011.09.025. Epub 2011 Nov 25.
The approach to burn prevention, to be effective in a particular area, should be based on sound knowledge of etiological patterns of burns injuries and must take into account the geographical variations and socioeconomic differences in burn epidemiology. Although many articles are published on burns epidemiology in Iran, a holistic view of burn epidemiology in Iran is not well presented in literature. In this study, a wide literature review was made on articles published regarding burns injuries in Iran. Pubmed, Embase, Scopus, and Iranian scientific information (SID) databases were searched for information on epidemiology of burns in Iran during the years 2000-2010. During the investigation we found that few Farsi journals were not indexed in SID during the earlier years of the decade, so to increase the chance of capturing necessary information these were checked by hand. As the second source, available data from the Iranian National Home Injury Registry Database (INHIRD) during two Iranian calendar years in the period 2001-2003 were used to extract necessary information. The results of this review helped in defining the magnitude of the burns problem, exploring the role of gender and age in burns, defining the agents causing burns, burn extent, burn mortality and place of injury occurrence. Some areas with paucity of information as well as methodological pitfalls in published research were identified and discussed.
烧伤预防方法若要在特定地区有效，就必须基于对烧伤损伤病因模式的深入了解，并考虑到烧伤流行病学的地域差异和社会经济差异。尽管有许多关于伊朗烧伤流行病学的文章发表，但文献中并未全面呈现伊朗烧伤流行病学的全貌。在本研究中，我们对 2000 年至 2010 年期间在伊朗发表的有关烧伤损伤的文章进行了广泛的文献综述。我们在 Pubmed、Embase、Scopus 和伊朗科学信息数据库（SID）中检索了 2000 年至 2010 年期间伊朗烧伤流行病学的信息。在调查过程中，我们发现，由于十年早期一些波斯语期刊没有被 SID 索引，因此我们手动检查了这些期刊，以增加获取必要信息的机会。其次，我们还利用了 2001 年至 2003 年期间伊朗历两年的伊朗国家家庭伤害登记数据库（INHIRD）中的现有数据来提取必要的信息。这项综述的结果有助于确定烧伤问题的严重程度，探讨性别和年龄在烧伤中的作用，确定导致烧伤的因素、烧伤程度、烧伤死亡率以及受伤发生的地点。此外，还确定并讨论了一些信息匮乏的领域以及已发表研究中的方法学缺陷。
