Division of overall duration of stay into operative stay and postoperative stay improves the overall estimate as a measure of quality of outcome in burn care.

PATIENTS AND METHODS:Surgically managed burn patients admitted between 2010-14 were included. Operative stay was defined as the time from admission until the last operation, postoperative stay as the time from the last operation until discharge. The difference in variation was analysed with F-test....

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Main Authors: Islam Abdelrahman, Moustafa Elmasry, Pia Olofsson, Ingrid Steinvall, Mats Fredrikson, Folke Sjoberg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5376076?pdf=render