Burn Publications

Study identified the published literature that focuses on the impact of burn injuries on physical, psychological, or social functioning, and summarized the characteristics of the studies and their outcomes. The authors included literature published after 1980, focusing on burn outcomes in children aged 5 to 18 years. Each eligible study ...

Study developed item pools that will be used to create a computerized adaptive test (CAT) assessing post-burn recovery in school-aged children. Item pool development was guided by the previously developed School-Aged Life Impact Burn Recovery Evaluation (SA-LIBRE5-12) Conceptual Framework. The item pool development process involved a systematic literature review, extraction ...

Article presents a conceptual argument for why relevance matters, proposes a working definition, and suggests strategies for operationalizing the construct in the context of clinical rehabilitation research. The authors place special emphasis on the importance of promoting relevance to patients, caregivers, and clinicians and provide preliminary frameworks and innovative study ...

Study used both classical and modern psychometric methods to evaluate psychometric properties of the Burn Specific Health Scale-Brief (BSHS-B), a commonly used burn-specific health outcome measure that includes 40 items across nine subscales. A total of 653 adults with burn injury completed the BSHS-B. Dimensionality, local dependence, item fit, and ...

Study assessed whether the Burn Model System (BMS) National Database, one of the largest prospective, longitudinal, multi-center research repositories collecting patient-reported outcomes after burn injury, is representative of the population that is eligible to participate. Eligibility for the database is based on burn size and receipt of autografting surgery. Data ...

Study examined the physical and mental health, satisfaction with life, and community integration of burn survivors up to 20 years after injury. Data were obtained from the Burn Model System National Longitudinal Database (1993-2020). Patient-reported outcome measures were collected at discharge (preinjury status recall) and 5 years, 10 years, 15 ...

Study assessed the association between head and neck (H&N) burn status and long-term outcomes for life satisfaction, body image satisfaction, community integration, and health-related quality of life among adolescent burn survivors. Data collected from the Burn Model System National Database (2006-2015) for 392 burn survivors between 14 and 17.9 years ...

Study described pain intensity and interference at baseline and 1 year post injury in burn, traumatic brain injury (TBI), and spinal cord injury (SCI) survivors compared to each other and with the general population (GP). It also evaluated the feasibility and utility of custom Patient Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System ...

Study examined the rate of readmission from inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRFs) to acute care hospitals (ACHs) during the first 30 days of rehabilitation stay, the variation in 30-day readmission rate across IRFs, and the extent that patient and facility characteristics contribute to this variation. Adult IRF discharges from 944 IRFs ...

Study examined the epidemiology of temperature sensitivity after burn injury and determined its associations with satisfaction with life, physical health, and mental health using validated on health-related quality of life (HRQOL) measures. Temperature sensitivity is thought to be caused by two general mechanisms: (1) loss of vasodilation, sweating, and piloerection ...

Study reviewed the quality of clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) that address rehabilitation for people with moderate/severe traumatic brain injury (TBI). CPGs are statements that provide recommendations which are informed by a systematic review of evidence about diagnosis or treatment and include an assessment of the benefits and harms of alternative ...

This review examined the quality and applicability of clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) for spinal cord injury (SCI) rehabilitation to assess whether the guideline development has followed a prescribed and recognized vetting process and the CPG content specifically includes function. A key word search of the PubMed, Cochrane, Embase, CINHAL, and ...

Study investigated whether commonly used mortality prognostication scores (i.e., revised Baux and Ryan scores) predict long-term, health-related quality of life (HRQOL) after burn injury using data obtained from the Burn Model System database (1994-2019). The revised Baux and Ryan scores use patient age, burn size, and presence of inhalation injury ...

Study developed item pools for a parent-reported, burn-specific patient-reported outcomes measure comprised of questions appropriate for children aged 1 to 5 years with burn injuries. Item development was based on a framework provided by previous work to develop the Preschool Life Impact Burn Recovery Evaluation (LIBRE) Conceptual Model. The Preschool ...

Study identified numeric score cut-points that define different levels of social participation ability and described each level for the Impact Burn Recovery Evaluation (LIBRE) Profile, a patient-reported outcome measure developed to assess social participation in adult burn survivors. An expert panel identified numeric score cut-points that distinguish different levels of ...

Study analyzed the impact of the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid Expansion on clinical outcomes and patient disposition after burn injury. It was hypothesized that increased insurance coverage results in improved outcomes and higher rates of discharge to inpatient rehabilitation. The study reviewed the University of Washington Regional Burn Center registry ...

Study investigated patterns of productivity change among burn survivors after their injury compared to their preinjury income. Occupational and income data through 24 months postinjury were extracted from the multicenter, longitudinal Burn Model System National Database. Annual income was reported in six groups: <$25k, $25k–50k, $50k–99k, $100k–149k, $150k–199k, and $>199k. ...

Article describes the significant physiological consequences that can persist for years after severe burn injuries. The treatment of deep burns often involves skin grafts to accelerate healing and reduce the risk of infection. The grafting procedure results in a physical disruption between the injured and subsequently debrided host site and ...

Study developed a conceptual framework to measure pediatric burn outcomes in survivors aged 5 to 12 years as a part of the School-Aged Life Impact Burn Recovery Evaluation Computer Adaptive Test (SA-LIBRE5–12 CAT) development. a systematic literature review was conducted, guided by the International Classification of Functioning—Child and Youth and ...