Evaluating an urban pediatric hospital's scald burn prevention program

• Main Authors: Rochelle Thompson (Author), Ross Budziszewski (Author), Autumn D. Nanassy (Author), Loreen K. Meyer (Author), Paul Glat (Author), Brooke Burkey (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2021-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Over 450,000 individuals are hospitalized with burns annually and roughly 35% are scald burns. Children younger than 5 years of age are at the greatest risk of scald burn injury. Caregiver burn prevention programs have been found to reduce the prevalence of injuries in young chil...