Cohort study evaluating management of burns in the community in clinical practice in the UK: costs and outcomes.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To evaluate health outcomes, resource use and corresponding costs attributable to managing burns in clinical practice, from initial presentation, among a cohort of adults in the UK.

Design

Retrospective cohort analysis of the records of a randomly selected cohort of 260 patients from The Health Improvement Network (THIN) database who had 294 evaluable burns.

Setting

Primary and secondary care sectors in the UK.

Primary and secondary outcome measures

Patients' characteristics, wound-related health outcomes, healthcare resource use and total National Health Service (NHS) cost of patient management.

Results

Diagnosis was incomplete in 63% of patients' records as the location, depth and size of the burns were missing. Overall, 70% of all the burns

SUBMITTER: Guest JF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7245389 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature