Table 3 Outcome quality indicators

Mortality

 1. Gross mortality and standardised mortality [4, 9, 16,17,18,19, 21, 24, 26, 27, 29, 30, 49, 50, 52, 53, 55, 56, 60, 62, 64, 65, 74, 77, 84, 87, 89, 90]

 2. Lethal area 50 (LA-50^a) [17, 20, 91]

Length of hospital stay

 3. Length of hospital stay [4, 16, 18, 21, 23, 26, 35, 38, 40, 49, 50, 52, 55,56,57,58,59,60,61,62, 64, 65, 68, 69, 71, 74, 78, 84, 89, 90, 92,93,94,95,96,97]

 4. Length of ICU stay [4, 17, 26, 46, 52, 53, 56, 65, 71, 84, 90, 98]

 5. Length of hospital stay / total body surface area [20, 27, 30, 63, 99]

 6. Number of days on mechanical ventilation [4, 17, 46, 53, 63, 65, 71, 74, 84]

Wound healing

 7. Graft adhesion percentage [7, 8, 78]

 8. Healing time of the donor area [7, 41, 57]

 9. Time to wound closure/ percentage of wound healed at discharge [7, 9, 20, 33, 35, 38, 40, 44, 45, 62, 100]

Physical-functional outcomes

 10. Evaluation of range of motion [7, 20, 71, 101,102,103]

 11. Incidence of ectropion, microstomia, and nasolabial contractures [102]

 12. Muscle strength assessment [7, 20, 72]

 13. Functionality assessment [7, 71]

 14. Distance the patient can walk at discharge [7, 61, 72, 98]

 15. Evaluation of pneumo-functional results [7, 104]

Nutritional outcomes

 16. Weight loss during hospitalisation [4, 7, 9, 20, 28, 54, 55, 57, 98]

Other result indicators

 17. Quality of life assessment [9, 20, 89, 105,106,107]

 18. Assessment of patient/care satisfaction [35, 37, 40, 88, 108, 109]

 19. Unplanned readmission [2, 4, 110]