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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Feb 4.
Published in final edited form as: Burns. 2017 Jan 6;43(2):258–264. doi: 10.1016/j.burns.2016.11.008

Table 4 –

Prevalence and accuracy of specific injury characteristics.

Prevalence (%) Accuracy (%) Kappa (95%CIa) Agreement
Burn registry Administrative data
≥10% TBSAb 41 40 93 0.85 (0.82–0.88) Excellent
≥20% TBSAb 20 21 96 0.88 (0.84–0.91) Excellent
≥10% full-thickness TBSAb 17 23 83 0.46 (0.40–0.52) Moderate
Inhalation injury 16 7 90 0.54 (0.47–0.61) Moderate
Mechanism 88 0.84 (0.81–0.87) Excellent
 Flame 61 60 92
 Contact 32 34 93
 Electrical 7 6 98
%TBSAb 87
 0–10 58 60 92 0.83 (0.80–0.86) Excellent
 11–20 21 19 92 0.74 (0.70–0.79) Substantial
 21–30 9 10 96 0.77 (0.70–0.83) Substantial
 31–40 4 4 98 0.77 (0.68–0.87) Substantial
 41–50 3 3 99 0.73 (0.60–0.86) Substantial
 51–60 2 2 99 0.72 (0.57–0.86) Substantial
 61–70 1 2 99 0.58 (0.38–0.78) Moderate
 71–80 0.9 0.8 99.5 0.70 (0.47–0.93) Substantial
 81–90 0.3 0.7 99.7 0.67 (0.36–0.97) Moderate
 >90 0.7 0.5 99.8 0.86 (0.66–1) Excellent
a

CI, confidence interval.

b

TBSA, total body surface area.