Introduction Sustaining a moderate to severe burn injury is associated with the potential for
substantial impairments to long-term physical and psychosocial health, including health …

Background Unintentional and intentional burn injuries vary across age groups, gender,
income, and global region. In high-income countries, the trend over the last several years …

Background: Outcome after burn injury is a multidimensional concept, but few
multidimensional, injury-specific outcome measures have been psychometrically evaluated …

Objective To describe patients' generic health status and health-related quality of life
(HRQoL) 12-months following admission to a state-wide burns service. Methods A total of …

Abstract Background The Burn Specific Health Scale-Brief (BSHS-B) evaluates 9 aspects of
health and has been validated globally. Existing reports typically focus on outcomes shortly …

BACKGROUND: How do clinicians determine the acceptable level of recovery of quality of
life (QoL) after burn injury? Many use the Burn Specific Health Scale (BSHS). The aim of this …

Rationale Major burns are likely to have a strong impact on health-related quality of life
(HRQoL). We investigated the level of and predictors for quality of life at 6 months after acute …

OBJECTIVES: We sought to evaluate the long term health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in
patients survived severely extensive burn and identify their clinical predicting factors …

Objectives Measurement of health-related quality of life (HRQL) is essential to qualify the
subjective burden of burns in survivors. We performed a systematic review of HRQL studies …

BACKGROUND Knowledge concerning the pattern of recovery and predictors of burn-
specific health years after burn injury is limited, and these factors were therefore assessed …