Smoke alarms, fire deaths, and randomised controlled trials

Smoke alarms, fire deaths, and randomised controlled trials.

Residential fire related deaths and injuries among children: fireplay, smoke alarms, and prevention.

BACKGROUND The aim of the study was to describe the epidemiology of residential fire related deaths and injuries among children, and identify risk factors for these injuries through a linked dataset for the city of Dallas, Texas. METHODS Data for all residential fires were linked with fire related injury data, using fire department records, ambulance transports, hospital admissions, and medic...

Incidence of fires and related injuries after giving out free smoke alarms: cluster randomised controlled trial.

OBJECTIVE To measure the effect of giving out free smoke alarms on rates of fires and rates of fire related injury in a deprived multiethnic urban population. DESIGN Cluster randomised controlled trial. SETTING Forty electoral wards in two boroughs of inner London, United Kingdom. PARTICIPANTS Primarily households including elderly people or children and households that are in housing ren...

Prevalence of working smoke alarms in local authority inner city housing: randomised controlled trial.

OBJECTIVES To identify which type of smoke alarm is most likely to remain working in local authority inner city housing, and to identify an alarm tolerated in households with smokers. DESIGN Randomised controlled trial. SETTING Two local authority housing estates in inner London. PARTICIPANTS 2145 households. INTERVENTION Installation of one of five types of smoke alarm (ionisation sens...

Interventions for promoting smoke alarm ownership and function.

BACKGROUND Residential fires caused at least 67 deaths and 2,500 non-fatal injuries to children aged 0-16 in the United Kingdom in 1998. Smoke alarm ownership is associated with a reduced risk of residential fire death. OBJECTIVES We evaluated interventions to promote residential smoke alarms, to assess their effect on smoke alarm ownership, smoke alarm function, fires and burns and other fir...