title: One world one burn rehabilitation standard.
abstract: According to the World Health Organization (WHO) burns are a huge global health problem resulting in death and devastation to those who survive large burns as they are faced with significant functional limitations that prevent purposeful and productive living. Members of the International Society for Burn Injuries (ISBI) Rehabilitation Committee conducted a needs assessment survey in order to characterize how burn rehabilitation is implemented worldwide and how the international burn rehabilitation community can help improve burn rehabilitation in identified geographic locations which need assistance in rehabilitating burn survivors successfully. The results of this survey indicated that poor and in some cases resource limited environments (RLEs) around the world seem to lack the financial, educational and material resources to conduct burn rehabilitation successfully. It appears that there are vast discrepancies in the areas of education, training and capacity to conduct research to improve the care of burn survivors as evidenced by the variation in responses between the RLEs and developed countries around the globe. In some cases, the problem is not knowledge, skill and ability to practice burn rehabilitation, but rather having the resources to do so due to financial difficulties.
authors.affiliation: Shriners Hospitals for Children, Galveston, TX 77550, USA. Electronic address: mserghiou@shrinenet.org.
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Serghiou
authors.affiliation: Temple University Burn Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Niszczak
authors.affiliation: Shriners Hospitals for Children, Northern California, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Parry
authors.affiliation: Department of Rehabilitation Science, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong.
authors.forename: C W P
authors.initials: CWP
authors.lastname: Li-Tsang
authors.affiliation: KU Leuven, Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Belgium.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Van den Kerckhove
authors.affiliation: St. Andrews's Centre for Plastic Surgery and Burns Broomfield Hospital, Australia.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Smailes
authors.affiliation: Burn Injury Research Node, The University of Notre Dame Australia, Fremantle, Western Australia, Australia; Fiona Stanley Hospital, Murdoch, Western Australia, Australia; Fiona Wood Foundation, Murdoch, Western Australia, Australia; Burn Injury Research Unit, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Edgar
mesh_terms: D002056:Burns / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000592:standards*; D014943:Global Health; D019538:Health Care Surveys; D006801:Humans; D020380:Needs Assessment; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic
keywords: Burn; International; Rehabilitation; Standard of care