Table 1.

Demographic characteristics at hospital admission.

	no MOF	MOF	p value
n	664	157
Gender
Male (n)	436	95	0.26185
Female (n)	228	62
Ethnicity
African American (n)	53	8	0.14147
Caucasian (n)	111	21
Hispanic (n)	487	123
Other	13	5
Age at admit (years)	7.3 ± 5.2	8.0 ± 5.8
Inhalation Injury n (%)	192 (29)	89 (57)	<0.00001
Type of burn
Flame n (%)	444 (67)	124 (79.0)	0.016
Scald n (%)	166 (25)	25 (16)
Other n (%)	54 (8)	8 (5)
TBSA burn %	51 ± 16	69 ± 18	<0.00001
TBSA third %	34 ± 24	58 ± 27	<0.00001
Burn to admit (days)	3.6 ± 4.3	3.3 ± 4.0	0.38695

Patients are stratified according the incidence of MOF. Patients with MOF had a larger burn size and a higher incidence of inhalation injury.