From: Quality indicators for hospital burn care: a scoping review
Burn patient assessment |
2. Evaluation by surgeon/nurse within 24 h after admission [4] |
4. Evaluation of other wound characteristics in addition to the TBSA [16, 20, 21] |
7. Weight and height assessment on admission and during hospitalisation [4, 28,29,30] |
9. Malnutrition risk assessment and nutritional assessment [2, 30] |
12. Pain assessment on admission and during hospitalisation [2, 33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42,43] |
13. Nurse's perception of pain [43] |
14. Surveillance of infection at admission [4] |
Burn patient treatment |
18. Elapsed time from injury to initiate resuscitation [19] |
19. Resuscitation fluid volume and urinary output [16, 20, 46,47,48] |
22. Time from admission to start feeding [2, 4, 8, 9, 28, 29, 52, 53] |
24. Total calories offered and ingested by the patient [7, 9, 20, 28,29,30,31,32, 54,55,56] |
28. Duration of hydrotherapy in minutes [43] |
29. Total number of dressings during hospitalisation [59] |
30. Total number of surgical procedures [35, 60,61,62,63,64] |
31. Duration of surgical procedures [16, 61, 62, 65,66,67,68] |
32. Time from admission to first surgical excision [4, 8, 19] |
33. Time to complete eschar removal [2, 4, 9, 20, 44, 45, 67] |
34. Incidence and percentage area of excised wounds treated surgically [44, 45] |
35. Days from injury to first grafting and from first to last grafting [16, 59] |
36. Number of grafting procedures and percentage of wound grafted [16, 40, 44, 45, 59, 60, 69] |
37. Patient/caregiver understanding of the surgical procedure [7] |
38. Patient/caregiver satisfaction with the postoperative period [7] |
40. Duration of rehabilitation in days [71] |
41. Rest time in bed [71] |
42. Registration of mobility level [72] |
43. Palliative care assessment [2] |
Prophylactic measures |
44. Anticoagulation prophylaxis [2] |
46. Preventive measures for central venous catheter-associated infections [73] |
47. Preventive measures for ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) [73] |
Complications |
49. Positive blood cultures and pathogen identification [2, 18] |
50. Incidence of healthcare-associated infections [7, 9, 18, 20, 35, 40, 52, 53, 56, 58, 59, 63, 66, 68, 73,74,75,76,77,78] |
51. Incidence and duration of sepsis [7, 19, 52, 62, 66, 74] |
53. Unplanned extubation rate [79] |
55. Readmission to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) [2] |
56. Incidence of decubitus ulcers/maintenance of the integrity of unburned skin [7, 80] |
58. Incidence of bronchoalveolar aspiration [56] |
62. Rehabilitation-related complications [84] |
66. Self-esteem assessment [85] |
Other process indicators |
70. Nursing empathy with the burn patient [88] |
71. Patient/caregiver understanding of post-hospital care [7] |
72. Resolvability [60] |