It has been accepted for many years that the cost of care for the burn-injured patient is
expensive. There is, however, little published data to show how costly “expensive” is. At the
Welsh Centre for burns we have undertaken a costing exercise in an attempt to define the
true cost to the establishment of burn injury. Using our current cost base and activity we have
established a cost per health related group (HRG) for burn injury and have also
prospectively calculated costs for three inpatients to determine whether HRG-based burn …