Implementation of the World Health Organization Global Burn Registry: Lessons Learned

Autor: Patricia Price, Caitlin Hebron, Barclay Stewart, Tom Potokar, Kajal Mehta
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Annals of global health. 88(1)
ISSN: 2214-9996
Popis: Burn injuries are a major cause of death and disability globally; however, the true epidemiologic burden is underestimated given the limited and fragmented availability of high-quality burn injury data from many regions. To address this gap, the World Health Organization (WHO) Global Burn Registry (GBR)-a minimum dataset aligned with a centralized registry-was officially launched in 2018 to facilitate hospital-level collection of key prevention, care, and outcome data from burn-injured patients around the world in a standardized manner. However, uptake and use of GBR has been low and inconsistent. Therefore, we aimed to identify and understand the barriers and facilitators to the implementation of the GBR to inform the development of a web-based GBR implementation guide through the
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