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Objective South Asia has the highest mortality rate from burns in the world. Application of quality improvement methods to burn care can help identify health system gaps. Our overall aim is to introduce a sustainable hospital-based burn registry for resource-constrained settings to assess health outcomes of burn injury patients presenting to dedicated burn injury centers in South Asia. Results The...
Burns are major cause of morbidity and mortality in developing countries. Better understanding of the nature and extent of injury remains the major and only available way to halt the occurrence of the event. The present study was conducted to determine the prevalence of by self and by other unintentional burn, their comparison and the possible mode of acquisition by obtaining the history of exposure...
Burns are leading cause of fatal injuries and major cause of morbidity and mortality in developing countries. The major obstacle in controlling severity is factors related to burn. This study determines frequency of burns and the factors related to it in Karachi, Pakistan.A cross-sectional study was conducted and 384 hospitalized adult patients with burns were consecutively interviewed during August...
Burns are important contributors toward mortality in trauma related injuries in Karachi, Pakistan. The aim of the present study was to delineate the factors contributing to the duration of hospitalization and mortality in such patients.We performed a single center retrospective study of patients admitted during a 2 year period (January 2009 till December 2010) in Burns Center, Karachi. Patients with...
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