title: Measuring burn injury outcomes.
abstract: Burn injury affects all facets of life. Burn care has improved over time. Improved survival after burn injury has resulted in a shift in outcome measurement from inpatient morbidity and mortality to long-term functional and health-related quality-of-life measures. Integration of professionals from different disciplines has enabled burn centers to develop collaborative methods of assessing the quality of care delivered to patients with burns based on their ability to reintegrate into their normal physical, social, psychological, and functional activities. Burn outcomes will continue to develop on the foundation that has been built and will generate evidence-based best practices in the future.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, University of California, Davis, Regional Burn Center, Davis, CA, USA; Shriners Hospital for Children Northern California, Sacramento, CA, USA. Electronic address: tina.palmieri@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu.
authors.forename: Tina L
authors.initials: TL
authors.lastname: Palmieri
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA; Shriners Hospital for Children, Galveston, TX, USA.
authors.forename: Rene
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Przkora
authors.affiliation: Shriners Hospital for Children, Galveston, TX, USA.
authors.forename: Walter J
authors.initials: WJ
authors.lastname: Meyer
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
authors.forename: Gretchen J
authors.initials: GJ
authors.lastname: Carrougher
mesh_terms: D002056:Burns / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D063868:Patient Outcome Assessment; D011788:Quality of Life; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy
keywords: Acute and critical care; Burns; Functional; Health-related quality of life; Outcomes; Psychological