Project Coordinator: Natalie Picton
Research Fellow: Dina Watterson
Investigators: Professor Peter Cameron, Dr Belinda Gabbe
Background:
Significant burn injury is a distinct and important component of the overall burden of injury in Victoria and across Australia. The rate of burn related hospital admissions in Victoria has steadily increased over the past decade with greater than 5000 per year and an estimated 50,000 nationally. The existing Burns Registry provides a framework for the Victorian burns units to develop and expand the registry to meet local needs. Stage one of the Burns Registry commenced in 2004 by the Australian and New Zealand Burns Association (ANZBA) following recognition that in order to improve services at a state level, there was a need to benchmark clinical service provision and outcomes across and outside Australia.
Aims:
The Bi-National Burn Registry (Bi-NBR) is a burns clinical quality registry which will; ensure accurate data recording across Australia on the epidemiology of burns, monitor health care performance, provide an opportunity to benchmark quality of care and measure long term outcomes for burn survivors.
Method:
Data collection using the revised minimum dataset inclusive of quality indicators commenced in July 2009 with the second quarterly report circulated in March 2010. The revised minimum data set has undergone revision following feedback from participating sites and governance committees. Changes made will be effective from July 1st 2010 and the minimum dataset will be fixed for 12 months to allow a full year of reporting and evaluation.
Results:
Ten of the seventeen Australian and New Zealand burns units (58%) contributed data to the registry during the period between 1st July 2007 and 30th June 2009. Of the ten sites, two sites (528 cases) were excluded from analysis, as retrospective ethics approval has not been received. There were 3526 cases admitted between 1st July 2007 and 30th June 2009 for the eight sites with retrospective ethics approval.
Status: Ongoing
Annual report: CLICK HERE
Student: N/A
Contact Person: Natalie Picton – natalie.picton@ monash.edu
Staff: Natalie Picton, Dina Watterson
Publications: Nil to date
The Victorian arm of the Bi-national Burns Registry would like to acknowledge the valuable donation of funds from the Helen Macpherson Smith Trust in 2010.
