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OBJECTIVE: This review was an effort to systematically examine the nationwide data available on pediatric burns requiring hospitalization to reveal burn epidemiology and guide future education and prevention. METHODS: The China Biomedical Disk Database, Chongqing VIP Database, and China Journal Full-Text Database were searched for articles reporting data on children and their burns from January 2000 through December 2005. Studies were included that systematically investigated the epidemiology of pediatric burns requiring hospitalization in China. Twenty-eight articles met the inclusion criteria, all of which were retrospective analyses. For each study included, 2 investigators independently abstracted the data related to the population description by using a standard form and included the percentage of patients with burn injury who were <15 years old; gender and distribution of age; type of residential area; place of injury; distribution of months and time; reasons for burn; anatomical sites of burn; severity of burn; and mortality and cause of death. These data were extracted, and a retrospective statistical description was performed with SPSS11.0 (SPSS Inc, Chicago, IL). RESULTS: Of the pediatric patients studied, the proportion of children with burn injury ranged from 22.50% to 54.66%, and the male/female ratio ranged from 1.25:1 to 4.42:1. The ratio of children aged Assuntos
Queimaduras/epidemiologia
, Hospitalização/estatística & dados numéricos
, Acidentes Domésticos/estatística & dados numéricos
, Queimaduras/mortalidade
, Queimaduras/prevenção & controle
, Causas de Morte
, Criança
, Pré-Escolar
, China/epidemiologia
, Feminino
, Humanos
, Masculino
, População Rural/estatística & dados numéricos
, Estações do Ano
, População Urbana/estatística & dados numéricos