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Emily Bebbington¹, Mohan Kakola², Sumanth Mallikarjuna Majgi³

¹Centre for Mental Health and Society, School of Health Sciences, Bangor University, LL13 7YP, UK.

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Burn registers are vital for injury surveillance. This study found that females with severe burns are more likely to have their injury intent misclassified, highlighting data quality issues in burn surveillance.

Keywords:

Accidents Burns India Registries Suicide Violence

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Medical Informatics
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Trauma Research

Background:

Burn registers are crucial for understanding injury intent and informing prevention strategies.
Intentional burn injuries disproportionately affect women in South Asia.
Accurate assessment of injury intent is challenging due to social and legal sensitivities, potentially leading to data misclassification.

Purpose of the Study:

To explore the misclassification of injury intent in burn surveillance data.
To identify subgroups at higher risk of misclassification in burn injury data.
To improve the quality of data collected in burn registers.

Main Methods:

A descriptive, hypothesis-generating study was conducted using data from a digitized single-center burn register in South India.
Data from 1,930 patients (February 2016 - February 2022) were analyzed.
Demographic and clinical characteristics were examined for each injury intent classification.

Main Results:

Injury intent data were missing in 12.6% of cases, being the most common missing variable.
Homicidal injuries were more prevalent in females, while suicidal injuries affected men and women equally.
Females with high total body surface area (TBSA) burns showed a higher likelihood of misclassification, with overwriting of intent data affecting females more than males.

Conclusions:

Females with high TBSA burns are a subgroup requiring focused research due to potential misclassification.
Improving surveillance data quality can be achieved by recording clinical impressions, changes in patient-reported intent, and standardizing data collection elements.
Injury intent should be recorded as a unique variable, separate from injury causation, to reduce misclassification in burn registries.