Epidemiological and cost analysis of the patients who admitted for burn injury in Başkent University Ankara Hospi̇tal Emergency Department

Burn has been an important cause of trauma trough human history. Most of the burn causes can be prevented by informing people and simple precautions but there is no decline in the number of burn cases with tecnological advancements. Treatment of burn trauma is a long and costly process. All around the world there are many researchs done about burn treatment but there are limited researches about the cost of burn treatment. The decrease in life quality after burn trauma effects patients'psychological health and financial status. It has been shown because of these reasons, not only major burn trauma patients but also simple burn patients should receive high quality healthcare service and this service should be given by experienced helthcare providers. Because of this reason all the patients that has come to emergency department with burn should be treated efficiently and with low costs. All admitted we aimed to analyze age, gender, admittance time, type of burn, clinical prognosis, mortality, and percentage of burnsite, and total cost of treatment of the patients presented with burn injury to the emergency department. According to this purpose we have acquired the data of 264 patients who have been admitted to Baskent University Emergency Department with burn injury between 2012 to 2014. We analysed age, gender, time, months and year of admitance, causes of burn, whether it is work related or not, self induced or not, if the treatment consists surgery or admittance for follow up, burnsite, thickness of burn and the total cost of treatment. The data has been collected from hospital patient registiration system. In conclusion, it is shown that patients'condition, gender, admittance year, surgery, burn cause, age does not effect cost of the treatment. On the other hand the main factors that changes the cost are degree of burn and burn site. Key words: Burn, emergency department, cost.