Table 1 Distribution of demographics and clinical features by age and gender.

From: Development of a framework for managing severe burns through a 17-year retrospective analysis of burn epidemiology and outcomes

Item

Age

P Value

Gender

P Value

 ≤ 17 (n = 7192)

18–40 (n = 5383)

41–60 (n = 4265)

 ≥ 61 (n = 1099)

Male (n = 12204)

Female (5735)

Gender (%)

Male

4340 (60.3)

4105 (76.3)

3129 (73.4)

630 (57.3)

 < 0.001

NA

NA

NA

Female

2852 (39.7)

1278 (23.7)

1136 (26.6)

469 (42.7)

 

NA

NA

NA

Etiology (%)

Scald

5393 (75.0)

1448 (26.9)

1363 (32.0)

401 (36.5)

 < 0.001

5068 (41.5)

3537 (61.7)

 < 0.001

Flame

1531 (21.3)

3334 (61.9)

2417 (56.7)

610 (55.5)

 

5920 (48.5)

1972 (34.4)

 

Electrical

216 (3.0)

533 (9.9)

417 (9.8)

48 (4.4)

 

1080 (8.8)

134 (2.3)

 

Chemical

4 (0.1)

13 (0.2)

10 (0.2)

3 (0.3)

 

23 (0.2)

7 (0.1)

 

Other

48 (0.7)

55 (1.0)

58 (1.4)

37 (3.4)

 

113 (0.9)

85 (1.5)

 

Head/face/neck (%)

No

4307 (59.9)

2632 (48.9)

2262 (53.0)

749 (68.2)

 < 0.001

6440 (52.8)

3510 (61.2)

 < 0.001

Yes

2885 (40.1)

2751 (51.1)

2003 (47.0)

350 (31.8)

 

5764 (47.2)

2225 (38.8)

 

Trunk (%)

No

3604 (50.1)

3361 (62.4)

2512 (58.9)

691 (62.9)

 < 0.001

7005 (57.4)

3163 (55.2)

0.005

Yes

3588 (49.9)

2022 (37.6)

1753 (41.1)

408 (37.1)

 

5199 (42.6)

2572 (44.8)

 

Limbs (%)

No

2422 (33.7)

1674 (31.1)

1200 (28.1)

319 (29.0)

 < 0.001

3926 (32.2)

1689 (29.5)

 < 0.001

Yes

4770 (66.3)

3709 (68.9)

3065 (71.9)

780 (71.0)

 

8278 (67.8)

4046 (70.5)

 

Hands (%)

No

6441 (89.6)

4331 (80.5)

3553 (83.3)

962 (87.5)

 < 0.001

10217 (83.7)

5070 (88.4)

 < 0.001

Yes

751 (10.4)

1052 (19.5)

712 (16.7)

137 (12.5)

 

1987 (16.3)

665 (11.6)

 

Feet (%)

No

6946 (96.6)

5056 (93.9)

3914 (91.8)

973 (88.5)

 < 0.001

11443 (93.8)

5446 (95.0)

0.002

Yes

246 (3.4)

327 (6.1)

351 (8.2)

126 (11.5)

 

761 (6.2)

289 (5.0)

 

Perineum (%)

No

6477 (90.1)

5200 (96.6)

4090 (95.9)

1045 (95.1)

 < 0.001

11414 (93.5)

5398 (94.1)

0.133

Yes

715 (9.9)

183 (3.4)

175 (4.1)

54 (4.9)

 

790 (6.5)

337 (5.9)

 

Hip (%)

No

5862 (81.5)

4972 (92.4)

3829 (89.8)

948 (86.3)

 < 0.001

10739 (88.0)

4872 (85.0)

 < 0.001

Yes

1330 (18.5)

411 (7.6)

436 (10.2)

151 (13.7)

 

1465 (12.0)

863 (15.0)