Management Outcome of Burn Injury and Associated Factors among Hospitalized Children at Ayder Referral Hospital, Tigray, Ethiopia

Table 1

Cause of burn trauma in different age groups of pediatric patients in Ayder Referral Hospital (2011-2015).

Variable	Category	Cause of burn injury					Total
		Scald	Flame	Electrical	Chemical	Contact
Age	<4 yrs	208 (84.9%)	31 (12.7%)	4 (1.6%)	0 (0%)	2 (0.8%)	245 (100%)
	5-9 yrs	32 (62.7%)	11 (21.6%)	8 (15.7%)	0 (0%)	0 (0%)	51 (100%)
	10-14 yrs	15 (37.5%)	9 (22.5%)	15 (37.5%)	1 (2.5%)	0 (0%)	40 (100%)
	>15	10 (21.7%)	15 (32.6%)	20 (43.5%)	1 (2.2%)	0 (0%)	46 (100%)
Total		265 (69.4%)	66 (17.3%)	47 (12.3%)	2 (0.5%)	2 (0.5%)	382 (100%)