ArticleBulletin of the World Health Organization2015
Long-term mortality among older adults with burn injury: a population-based study in Australia.
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- Current understanding of the chronic stress response to burn injury from human studies.Burns & trauma · 2023Review
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- Mortality and Years of Life Lost due to Burn Injury Among Older Iranian People; a Cross-Sectional study.Archives of academic emergency medicine · 2022Article
- Epidemiological and clinical characteristics and outcomes of inpatient burn injuries in older adults: Factors associated with mortality.Ulusal travma ve acil cerrahi dergisi = Turkish journal of trauma & emergency surgery : TJTES · 2022Article
- Epidemiological and Clinical Characteristics of 5,569 Pediatric Burns in Central China From 2013 to 2019.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo assess if burn injury in older adults is associated with changes in long-term all-cause mortality and to estimate the increased risk of death attributable to burn injury.
methodsWe conducted a population-based matched longitudinal study - based on administrative data from Western Australia's hospital morbidity data system and death register. A cohort of 6014 individuals who were aged at least 45 years when hospitalized for a first burn injury in 1980-2012 was identified. A non-injury comparison cohort, randomly selected from Western Australia's electoral roll (n = 25 759), was matched to the patients. We used Kaplan-Meier plots and Cox proportional hazards regression to analyse the data and generated mortality rate ratios and attributable risk percentages.
findingsFor those hospitalized with burns, 180 (3%) died in hospital and 2498 (42%) died after discharge. Individuals with burn injury had a 1.4-fold greater mortality rate than those with no injury (95% confidence interval, CI: 1.3-1.5). In this cohort, the long-term mortality attributable to burn injury was 29%. Mortality risk was increased by both severe and minor burns, with adjusted mortality rate ratios of 1.3 (95% CI: 1.1-1.9) and 2.1 (95% CI: 1.9-2.3), respectively.
conclusionBurn injury is associated with increased long-term mortality. In our study population, sole reliance on data on in-hospital deaths would lead to an underestimate of the true mortality burden associated with burn injury.
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