Epidemiology of foot burns in a Dutch burn centre

Burns & Trauma

Table 2 Outcomes in 82 patients with foot burns by age group

	Adult patients (N = 68)	Paediatric patients (N = 14)	p value
Days till admission, median (range)	14.5 (0–49)	11 (0–17)	0.095
Referral, No (%)			0.141
Admission to hospital > 1 day	56 (82.4)	9 (64.3)
Admission to hospital refused by patient/parents	1 (1.5)	1 (7.1)
Day treatment	11 (16.2)	4 (28.6)
Readmittance to hospital, No (%)^a	9 (13.4)	0 (0.0)	0.342
Median length of stay, days (range)	6.0 (1–41)	5.0 (1–7)	0.012
Treatment^b
			0.065
Graft	61 (91.0)	10 (71.4)
Necrotectomy only	1 (1.5)	0 (0.0)
Conservative	5 (7.5)	3 (21.4)
Other	0 (0.0)	1 (7.1)
Additional surgery, No (%)^b	6 (9.0)	0 (0.0)	0.583
Take graft, No (%)^c			0.240
Good	54 (84.4)	10 (76.9)
Moderate	5 (7.8)	0 (0.0)
Inapplicable	5 (7.8)	3 (23.1)
Complete epithelialization, No (%)^e	51 (83.6)	10 (83.3)	1.000
Residual defect, No (%)^d	21 (32.8)	2 (16.7)	0.327
Days till complete epithelialization, median (range)	31 (10–192)	29.5 (24–33)	0.613
Complications, No (%)^f	15 (23.1)	3 (27.3)	0.716

^aMissing for one adult and one paediatric patient
^bMissing for one adult patient
^cMissing for four adults and one paediatric patient. Good: >90 %; moderate: 50–90 %; inapplicable: <50 %
^dMissing for four adults and two paediatric patients
^eMissing for seven adults and two paediatric patients
^fMissing for three adults and three paediatric patients. Infection, graft loss, delayed wound healing, hypertrophic scaring, scar contracture, amputation and shock

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