Improved and standardized method for assessing years lived with disability after burns and its application to estimate the non-fatal burden of disease of burn injuries in Australia, New Zealand and the Netherlands
Background: Burden of disease estimates are an important resource in public health. Currently, robust estimates are not available for the burn population. Our objectives are to adapt a refined methodology (INTEGRIS method) to burns and to apply this new INTEGRIS-burns method to estimate, and compare, the burden of disease of burn injuries in Australia, New Zealand and the Netherlands. Methods: Existing European and Western-Australian health-related quality of life (HRQL) datasets were combined to derive disability weights for three homogenous burn injury groups based on percentage total body s... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | doc-type:article |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2020 |
Schlagwörter: | Burden of disease / Burn injuries / Methodology / Disability weights / ddc:150 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26805654 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/27025 |