title: Enhancing the quality and usefulness of epidemiological studies of burn injuries.
abstract: The objectives of this manuscript are to highlight how certain features of epidemiological studies of burn injuries affect the quality of the investigation and the usefulness of the results, and to suggest a framework, in the form of a checklist, for future submissions of epidemiological studies to Burns.
authors.affiliation: Department of Public Health, Oregon State University, Corvallis, USA.
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Rossignol
mesh_terms: D002056:Burns / Q000453:epidemiology*; D003625:Data Collection / Q000379:methods; D004812:Epidemiologic Methods; D006801:Humans; D012107:Research Design