Brigham P A, McLoughlin E
Burn Foundation, Philadelphia, PA 19107, USA.
J Burn Care Rehabil. 1996 Mar-Apr;17(2):95-107. doi: 10.1097/00004630-199603000-00003.
Recent estimates related to annual burn incidence and medical care use in the United States include 5500 deaths from fire and burns (1991), 51,000 acute hospital admissions for burn injury (1991 to 1993 average), and 1.25 million total burn injuries (1992). Time trends from 1971 to 1991 reveal significant declines in each estimate. Taking into account the 25% increase in the U.S. population during this period, the rates of decline in deaths attributed to fire and burns and acute hospitalization for burn injury are both about 50%. The rates of decline are similar in sample statistics for all burns receiving medical care and for all burns above a reportable level of severity. In addition to providing current and time-series estimates, this article discusses burn injury coding issues and describes the data sources from which national and state estimates can be derived. The principal objective is to establish and describe a set of burn injury data baselines in a manner that will facilitate future tracking of burn incidence and medical care use at the national and state level by practitioners and researchers.
因火灾和烧伤导致5500人死亡（1991年），因烧伤而急性入院治疗51000人次（1991年至1993年平均水平），以及总计125万例烧伤（1992年）。1971年至1991年的时间趋势显示各项估计数据均显著下降。考虑到这一时期美国人口增长了25%，因火灾和烧伤导致的死亡率以及因烧伤而急性住院治疗率的下降幅度均约为50%。在接受医疗护理的所有烧伤病例以及所有严重程度达到可报告水平以上的烧伤病例的样本统计中，下降率相似。除了提供当前和时间序列估计数据外，本文还讨论了烧伤编码问题，并描述了可得出国家和州估计数据的数据源。主要目的是以一种便于从业者和研究人员在国家和州层面未来跟踪烧伤发病率及医疗护理使用情况的方式，建立并描述一套烧伤数据基线。
