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Fire-related deaths in India in 2001: a retrospective analysis of data

Sanghavi P, Bhalla K, Das V (Cambridge, MA; Harvard Univ, Cambridge, MA; Johns Hopkins Univ, Baltimore, MD) Lancet 373:1282-1288, 2009^§

R.E. Salisbury, MD

Evidence Ranking

• D

Expert Rating

• 3

Abstract

Background

Hospital-based studies have suggested that fire-related deaths might be a neglected public-health issue in India. However, no national estimates of these deaths exist and the only numbers reported in published literature come from the Indian police. We combined multiple health datasets to assess the extent of the problem.