Epidemiology of burn patients in a tertiary care hospital in Kashmir: A prospective study

Pattern of unintentional burns: A hospital based study from Pakistan

“…These people are at high risk of getting higher severity of burns because most of the manual workers are less educated and did not take adequate precautionary measures when dealing with dangerous substances, contact with hot objects, faulty wiring, excessive use of inferior quality of CNG cylinders in automobiles and most importantly, working unsafely with high tension wires [11,12]. These findings are consistent with the findings of several other studies [7,[13][14][15]. In this study, unintentional burns by self were predominantly higher among males as compared to females.…”

Clinico-epidemiological profile of burns cases admitted to a tertiary care hospital in a coastal area of South India

“…Similar findings have been observed in studies conducted at different parts of the country [5][6][7] whereas the studies conducted in northern part of India, Jaipur and Singapore has shown male predominance. [8][9][10] Female predominance in our study can be due to nature of household work with which they are associated and might be related to dowry deaths.…”

“…12,18 In contrast a study conducted in Kashmir observed that maximum number of burn cases were accidental in nature while a study conducted in Bhuj showed that around a fourth of cases were suicidal in nature. 1,8 Most of the suicidal cases are reported as accidental to elude penalties and legalities which may be one of explanation for more number of accidental cases.…”

Epidemiological study of burn patients in a tertiary care hospital, Sidhipet district, Telangana

“…12 Hence in the present study epidemiology of burns patients since last 3 years were studied. 4,6,[13][14][15][16][17][18][19] More number of females may be due to their engagement in cooking activities. Most of the cases have occurred at home (91.9%) similar to study in Manipal (50%) and study in Loni (94%).…”