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Predicting Burn Injury Consultations: The Influence of Temporal Variables and Weather Conditions.

Claudius Illg¹, Anna Zoldina¹, Johann Fontana²

¹Dept. of Hand, Plastic, Reconstructive and Burn Surgery, BG Unfallklinik Tuebingen, Eberhard Karls University Tuebingen, Germany.

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Burn injury consultations peak in summer months and early weekdays, with no weather correlation. Female patients showed fewer consultations during warmer, sunnier periods, aiding resource management.

Keywords:

Burn injury External factors Occupational injury Seasonality Weather

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Area of Science:

Trauma Surgery
Burn Care Management
Public Health Epidemiology

Background:

Specialized burn centers are crucial for treating burn victims, requiring 24/7 specialist availability.
Understanding patient flow patterns is essential for optimizing bed and staff allocation in burn units.
Burn injuries represent a small but critical subset of trauma cases.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the impact of temporal and meteorological factors on burn injury consultation frequency.
To identify peak periods of patient presentation for improved resource management.
To analyze correlations between weather conditions and burn injury consultations.

Main Methods:

Analysis of burn injury consultation data from a single burn unit over one year.
Correlation of temporal variables (day of week, month) with consultation counts.
Correlation of meteorological data (temperature, sunshine, precipitation, humidity, wind) with consultation counts.

Main Results:

A total of 466 burn trauma patients were analyzed.
Peak consultation numbers occurred in June and July, and at the beginning of the week (Tuesdays).
No significant correlation was found between patient numbers and meteorological factors; however, female patient proportion negatively correlated with sunshine and temperature.

Conclusions:

Burn injury consultation patterns are influenced by seasonality (summer) and weekly cycles (early week), not weather.
Resource allocation can be improved by anticipating higher patient volumes during specific periods.
Further research into factors influencing female patient presentation during favorable weather is warranted.