title: What's in a Name? Recent Key Projects of the Committee on Organization and Delivery of Burn Care.
abstract: The Committee for the Organization and Delivery of Burn Care (ODBC) was charged by President Palmieri and the American Burn Association (ABA) Board of Directors with presenting a plenary session at the 45th Meeting of the ABA in Palm Springs, CA, in 2013. The objective of the plenary session was to inform the membership about the wide range of the activities performed by the ODBC committee. The hope was that this session would encourage active involvement within the ABA as a means to improve the delivery of future burn care. Selected current activities were summarized by key leaders of each project and highlighted in the plenary session. The history of the committee, current projects in disaster management, regionalization, best practice guidelines, federal partnerships, product development, new technologies, electronic medical records, and manpower issues in the burn workforce were summarized. The ODBC committee is a keystone committee of the ABA. It is tasked by the ABA leadership with addressing and leading progress in many areas that constitute current challenges in the delivery of burn care.
authors.affiliation: From the *Firefighters' Regional Burn Center, Regional Medical Center, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee; †Massachusetts General Hospital, Shriners Hospitals for Children®-Boston, Harvard University Medical School; ‡The Burn Center at Saint Barnabas Medical Center, Livingston, New Jersey; §Rhode Island Hospital, Providence; ‖The Arizona Burn Center, Maricopa Medical Center, Phoenix; ¶Center for Devices & Radiological Health, US Food and Drug Administration; #Division of CBRN Countermeasures, Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, Department of Health and Human Services; **Ross Tilley Burn Centre, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario; ††Unfallkrankenhaus Linz, Austria; ‡‡University of Wisconsin Medical Center, Madison, WI; §§Medstar Washington Hospital Center, George Washington University, Washington, DC.
authors.forename: William L
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authors.lastname: Hickerson
authors.forename: Colleen M
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authors.lastname: Ryan
authors.forename: Kathe M
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authors.lastname: Conlon
authors.forename: David T
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authors.lastname: Harrington
authors.forename: Kevin
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authors.lastname: Foster
authors.forename: Suzanne
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authors.lastname: Schwartz
authors.forename: Narayan
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authors.lastname: Iyer
authors.forename: Marc
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authors.lastname: Jeschke
authors.forename: Herbert L
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authors.lastname: Haller
authors.forename: Lee D
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authors.lastname: Faucher
authors.forename: Brett D
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authors.lastname: Arnoldo
authors.forename: James C
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authors.lastname: Jeng
mesh_terms: D002053:Burn Units / Q000458:organization & administration*; D002056:Burns / Q000628:therapy*; D003226:Congresses as Topic; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration; D004189:Disaster Planning; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D010348:Patient Care Team / Q000458:organization & administration; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D012955:Societies, Medical / Q000458:organization & administration; D014481:United States