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Introduction Burn injury is a critical and under-recognized public health issue that affects people all over the world. Majority of the burns occur in low and middle income countries like Uganda. There is paucity of data relating to length of hospital stay among burn patients managed in hospitals with no burn units, yet this constitute a big percentage of hospitals in low income countries. This study was aimed at determining the predictors of length of stay at 3 hospitals in resource limited setting. Methods This was a prospective cohort multicentre study that enrolled 101 burns patients with moderate and severe burns admitted in 3 tertiary hospitals in western Uganda. Follow up was done till to discharge, length of hospital stay and its predictors determining using logistic regression in SPSS version 26. Results Of the 101 participants, the mean age was 21.3 (SD = 16.8) years. Majority were males (69.3%) from a rural setting (61.4%) and were accidentally burnt (95.0%) from home (75.2%). The mean length of hospital stay was 9 days with a standard deviation of 5.7. At multivariate level of analysis, the variables that independently predicted increased length of hospital stay were time to medical attention (AOR = 14.912, CI = 2.743–81.079, P = 0.002), burn severity (AOR = 6.173, CI = 1.392–27.371, P = 0.017) and type of procedure done (AOR = 0.047, CI = 0.009–0.245, P |
