ArticleBMC public health2020
Improved and standardized method for assessing years lived with disability after burns and its application to estimate the non-fatal burden of disease of burn injuries in Australia, New Zealand and the Netherlands.
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- Methodological considerations in injury burden of disease studies across Europe: a systematic literature review.BMC public health · 2022Pooled it
- Does exercise influence burn-induced inflammation: A cross-over randomised controlled feasibility trial.PloS one · 2022Trial
- Health service utilisation cost associated with residential fire incidents in New South Wales, Australia.BMC health services research · 2025Article
- Psychiatric Illness and Substance Abuse: Unaddressed Factors in Burn Injury.Journal of burn care & research : official publication of the American Burn Association · 2023Article
- The burden of disease of fatal and non-fatal burn injuries for the full spectrum of care in the Netherlands.Archives of public health = Archives belges de sante publique · 2023Article
- Burn Patient Perspectives on Disability Weights and the Philosophy of Disability: A Gap in the Literature.European burn journal · 2023Article
- Current understanding of the chronic stress response to burn injury from human studies.Burns & trauma · 2023Review
- Burden and Costs of Severe Burn Injury in Victoria, Australia.European burn journal · 2022Article
- The Role of the Immune System in Pediatric Burns: A Systematic Review.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Review
- Assessing Health-Related Quality of Life of Adult Patients with Intermediate Burns: The Added Value of an Itching and Cognition Item for the EQ-5D: A Retrospective Observational Study.European burn journal · 2022Article
- Activity Impairment, Work Status, and Work Productivity Loss in Adults 5-7 Years After Burn Injuries.Journal of burn care & research : official publication of the American Burn Association · 2022Article
- Assessing the Health Loss from Kashin-Beck Disease and Its Relationship with Environmental Selenium in Qamdo District of Tibet, China.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundBurden of disease estimates are an important resource in public health. Currently, robust estimates are not available for the burn population. Our objectives are to adapt a refined methodology (INTEGRIS method) to burns and to apply this new INTEGRIS-burns method to estimate, and compare, the burden of disease of burn injuries in Australia, New Zealand and the Netherlands.
methodsExisting European and Western-Australian health-related quality of life (HRQL) datasets were combined to derive disability weights for three homogenous burn injury groups based on percentage total body surface area (%TBSA) burned. Subsequently, incidence data from Australia, New Zealand, and the Netherlands from 2010 to 2017 were used to compute annual non-fatal burden of disease estimates for each of these three countries. Non-fatal burden of disease was measured by years lived with disability (YLD).
resultsThe combined dataset included 7159 HRQL (EQ-5D-3 L) outcomes from 3401 patients. Disability weights ranged from 0.046 (subgroup < 5% TBSA burned > 24 months post-burn) to 0.497 (subgroup > 20% TBSA burned 0-1 months post-burn). In 2017 the non-fatal burden of disease of burns for the three countries (YLDs/100,000 inhabitants) was 281 for Australia, 279 for New Zealand and 133 for the Netherlands.
conclusionsThis project established a method for more precise estimates of the YLDs of burns, as it is the only method adapted to the nature of burn injuries and their recovery. Compared to previous used methods, the INTEGRIS-burns method includes improved disability weights based on severity categorization of burn patients; a better substantiated proportion of patients with lifelong disability based; and, the application of burn specific recovery timeframes. Information derived from the adapted method can be used as input for health decision making at both the national and international level. Future studies should investigate whether the application is valid in low- and middle- income countries.
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