PMID- 19235766
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20090609
LR  - 20090409
IS  - 1097-0274 (Electronic)
IS  - 0271-3586 (Linking)
VI  - 52
IP  - 5
DP  - 2009 May
TI  - Characteristics of occupational burns in Oregon, 2001-2006.
PG  - 380-90
LID - 10.1002/ajim.20689 [doi]
AB  - BACKGROUND: Occupational burns are known to be a serious public health concern. 
      This article describes work-related burns in Oregon between 2001 and 2006. 
      METHODS: Oregon Workers' Compensation (WC) burn claims were analyzed; data from a 
      commercial insurance carrier (CIC) was used to characterize non-disabling burn 
      claims. To ensure that our primary data source (WC) captures as many burn cases 
      as possible, we compared hospitalized cases to a regional burn center (RBC) and 
      Oregon hospital discharge index (HDI) data. RESULTS: The WC burn injury rate 
      ranged from a high of 1.8 per 10,000 workers in 2001 to a low of 1.4 per 10,000 
      in 2004. We identified 2,165 accepted burn claims in CIC data, of which 85% were 
      non-disabling. We matched data from a regional burn center to a subset of 
      hospitalized claims from WC data and found an additional 44 cases of occupational 
      hospitalized burns representing a 3% increase in total cases captured. 
      CONCLUSIONS: Occupational burns continue to be a problem for working Oregonians, 
      and the use of additional data sources outside of WC augments our surveillance 
      system.
CI  - Copyright 2009 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
FAU - Walters, Jaime K
AU  - Walters JK
AD  - Office of Environmental Public Health, Oregon Department of Human Services, 
      Portland, Oregon 97232, USA. jaime.walters@state.or.us
LA  - eng
GR  - U60 OH008472/OH/NIOSH CDC HHS/United States
PT  - Comparative Study
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.
PL  - United States
TA  - Am J Ind Med
JT  - American journal of industrial medicine
JID - 8101110
SB  - IM
MH  - Adult
MH  - Age Distribution
MH  - Burns/*classification/*epidemiology
MH  - Causality
MH  - Female
MH  - Hospitalization/statistics & numerical data
MH  - Humans
MH  - Incidence
MH  - Insurance, Health/statistics & numerical data
MH  - Male
MH  - Middle Aged
MH  - Occupational Diseases/*classification/epidemiology
MH  - Occupations/classification
MH  - Oregon/epidemiology
MH  - Sex Distribution
MH  - Workers' Compensation/*statistics & numerical data
MH  - Young Adult
EDAT- 2009/02/25 09:00
MHDA- 2009/06/10 09:00
CRDT- 2009/02/25 09:00
PHST- 2009/02/25 09:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2009/02/25 09:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2009/06/10 09:00 [medline]
AID - 10.1002/ajim.20689 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Am J Ind Med. 2009 May;52(5):380-90. doi: 10.1002/ajim.20689.