Burn Guidelines—An International Comparison

Comparison of methods of predicting burn mortality.

Recent suggestions that patients "hopelessly burned" be permitted to die peacefully have refocused attention on the accuracy of different methods of predicting whether an individual burn patient will survive. The purpose of this presentation is to compare the accuracy of mortality predictions based upon four different statistical methods: (1) Baux's rule which adds the patient's age in years to...

An International Comparison

This research describes, classifies, and comparatively evaluates national models and mechanisms used to evaluate research and allocate research funding in 16 countries. Although these models and mechanisms vary widely in terms of how research is evaluated and financed, nearly all share the common characteristic of relating funding to some measure of past performance. Each of these 16 national m...

Comparison of bacterial isolated from burn wounds in ICU and burn ward patients

Methods We collected swabs from wounds in 16 ICU patients and 58 of burn ward patients during a two month period Jan.-March 2011. Clinical samples were inoculated on Blood agar and MacConkey agar. The isolates were identified with Gram stain, oxydase test and Enterosystem 18R for the gram negatives and Staphy slide test for the staphylococci. The antibiogram was performed by the disc-diffusion ...

A review of the international Burn Injury Database (iBID) for England and Wales: descriptive analysis of burn injuries 2003–2011

OBJECTIVE To describe, for the first time, distribution (by geography, age, sex) and time trends in burn injury in England and Wales over the period that the international Burn Injury Database (iBID) has been in place. SETTING Data from the iBID for the years 2003-2011 were used for a retrospective descriptive observational study of specialised services workload and admissions in England and ...

International Comparison Of Concentration Ratios