The development of the Delivery Assessment Tool (DAT) to facilitate quality improvement in burns services in low-middle income countries.

Implementation science is a useful tool to consider ways in which we can introduce improvements to burn services in low-and-middle income countries (LMICs), where the majority of the burden of burn injury is now experienced. This paper outlines the development of the Delivery Assessment Tool (DAT), a method for facilitating quality improvement in burn services in LMICs. We used a participatory approach that ensured that local clinicians and experts were fully involved in piloting the tool.

Burns in Nepal: a participatory, community survey of burn cases and knowledge, attitudes and practices to burn care and prevention in three rural municipalities.

Objectives: As part of an ongoing, long-term project to co-create burn prevention strategies in Nepal, we collected baseline data to share and discuss with the local community, use as a basis for a co-created prevention strategy and then monitor changes over time. This paper reports on the method and outcomes of the baseline survey and demonstrates how the data are presented back to the community.

Design: A community-based survey.