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Clinico-Demographic Profile and Factors Affecting Duration of Hospital Stay Among Burn Patients in an Emergency Department of a Tertiary Care Center, South India: A Hospital-Based Cross-Sectional Study

Background Burns continue to be a serious public health problem in India. It persists as an endemic disease in spite of implementing various preventive measures at the individual and community levels. Etiology and factors influencing burns are varied. There is a paucity of data regarding the clinico...

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Autores principales: Mahalingam, Sasikumar, Rajendran, Gunaseelan, Rajaa, Sathish, Aazmi, Arshiya, Maroju, Nanda, Purushothaman, Suruthi, Gara, Mounika, Karn, Shivani, Rajendran, Ajithkumar, Balassoundaram, Vishwanath
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Publicado: Cureus 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10495751/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37706143
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.43397
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author Mahalingam, Sasikumar
Rajendran, Gunaseelan
Rajaa, Sathish
Aazmi, Arshiya
Maroju, Nanda
Purushothaman, Suruthi
Gara, Mounika
Karn, Shivani
Rajendran, Ajithkumar
Balassoundaram, Vishwanath
author_facet Mahalingam, Sasikumar
Rajendran, Gunaseelan
Rajaa, Sathish
Aazmi, Arshiya
Maroju, Nanda
Purushothaman, Suruthi
Gara, Mounika
Karn, Shivani
Rajendran, Ajithkumar
Balassoundaram, Vishwanath
author_sort Mahalingam, Sasikumar
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description Background Burns continue to be a serious public health problem in India. It persists as an endemic disease in spite of implementing various preventive measures at the individual and community levels. Etiology and factors influencing burns are varied. There is a paucity of data regarding the clinico-demographic profile of burns disease, especially from emergency tertiary care settings in India. Objective To assess the proportion of burn patients having longer hospital stays (>1 week) and the influence of clinico-demographic factors associated with it among the burn patients presenting to the emergency department of a tertiary care institute in south India. Methodology An institution-based cross-sectional analytical study was conducted among burns patients attending the Emergency Medicine Department (EMD) of a tertiary care center between January 2017 and December 2017. Information on clinico-demographic profile and duration of hospital stay were captured using semi-structured data collection proforma. Results All the 327 burns injury patients who presented to our EMD during the study period were included. Among the 327 patients, 259 (79%) were admitted to the EMD. Among 259 admitted patients, 142 (55%) patients were discharged home. Among these 142 patients, 106 (74.6%; 95%CI 66.8-81.2) had longer hospital stays (more than one week). Female gender and facial/inhalational burns were found to have an independent effect on the length of hospital stay even after adjusted analysis. Conclusion Length of hospital stay is independently influenced by female gender and facial/inhalational burns. This study also identified the need for better home safety, child-proofing, proper pre-hospital care, and dedicated burns units in the community.
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spelling pubmed-104957512023-09-13 Clinico-Demographic Profile and Factors Affecting Duration of Hospital Stay Among Burn Patients in an Emergency Department of a Tertiary Care Center, South India: A Hospital-Based Cross-Sectional Study Mahalingam, Sasikumar Rajendran, Gunaseelan Rajaa, Sathish Aazmi, Arshiya Maroju, Nanda Purushothaman, Suruthi Gara, Mounika Karn, Shivani Rajendran, Ajithkumar Balassoundaram, Vishwanath Cureus Emergency Medicine Background Burns continue to be a serious public health problem in India. It persists as an endemic disease in spite of implementing various preventive measures at the individual and community levels. Etiology and factors influencing burns are varied. There is a paucity of data regarding the clinico-demographic profile of burns disease, especially from emergency tertiary care settings in India. Objective To assess the proportion of burn patients having longer hospital stays (>1 week) and the influence of clinico-demographic factors associated with it among the burn patients presenting to the emergency department of a tertiary care institute in south India. Methodology An institution-based cross-sectional analytical study was conducted among burns patients attending the Emergency Medicine Department (EMD) of a tertiary care center between January 2017 and December 2017. Information on clinico-demographic profile and duration of hospital stay were captured using semi-structured data collection proforma. Results All the 327 burns injury patients who presented to our EMD during the study period were included. Among the 327 patients, 259 (79%) were admitted to the EMD. Among 259 admitted patients, 142 (55%) patients were discharged home. Among these 142 patients, 106 (74.6%; 95%CI 66.8-81.2) had longer hospital stays (more than one week). Female gender and facial/inhalational burns were found to have an independent effect on the length of hospital stay even after adjusted analysis. Conclusion Length of hospital stay is independently influenced by female gender and facial/inhalational burns. This study also identified the need for better home safety, child-proofing, proper pre-hospital care, and dedicated burns units in the community. Cureus 2023-08-12 /pmc/articles/PMC10495751/ /pubmed/37706143 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.43397 Text en Copyright © 2023, Mahalingam et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Emergency Medicine
Mahalingam, Sasikumar
Rajendran, Gunaseelan
Rajaa, Sathish
Aazmi, Arshiya
Maroju, Nanda
Purushothaman, Suruthi
Gara, Mounika
Karn, Shivani
Rajendran, Ajithkumar
Balassoundaram, Vishwanath
Clinico-Demographic Profile and Factors Affecting Duration of Hospital Stay Among Burn Patients in an Emergency Department of a Tertiary Care Center, South India: A Hospital-Based Cross-Sectional Study
title Clinico-Demographic Profile and Factors Affecting Duration of Hospital Stay Among Burn Patients in an Emergency Department of a Tertiary Care Center, South India: A Hospital-Based Cross-Sectional Study
title_full Clinico-Demographic Profile and Factors Affecting Duration of Hospital Stay Among Burn Patients in an Emergency Department of a Tertiary Care Center, South India: A Hospital-Based Cross-Sectional Study
title_fullStr Clinico-Demographic Profile and Factors Affecting Duration of Hospital Stay Among Burn Patients in an Emergency Department of a Tertiary Care Center, South India: A Hospital-Based Cross-Sectional Study
title_full_unstemmed Clinico-Demographic Profile and Factors Affecting Duration of Hospital Stay Among Burn Patients in an Emergency Department of a Tertiary Care Center, South India: A Hospital-Based Cross-Sectional Study
title_short Clinico-Demographic Profile and Factors Affecting Duration of Hospital Stay Among Burn Patients in an Emergency Department of a Tertiary Care Center, South India: A Hospital-Based Cross-Sectional Study
title_sort clinico-demographic profile and factors affecting duration of hospital stay among burn patients in an emergency department of a tertiary care center, south india: a hospital-based cross-sectional study
topic Emergency Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10495751/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37706143
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.43397
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