Long term mortality in burned children.

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1 Servicio de Control Epidemiológico e Infectología Hospital de Pediatría J P Garrahan, Buenos Aires, Argentina ; 2 Presidente de la Fundación Centro de Estudios Infectológicos, Buenos Aires, Argentina ; 3 Director de la Maestría en Investigación Clínica Farmacologíca, Universidad Abierta Interamericana (UAI), Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Published: July 2015

Studies about risk factors for mortality in burn children are scarce and are even less in the follow up of this population across time. Usually, after complete event attendance, children are not follow-up as risk patients, burn injury affects all facets of life. Integration of professionals from different disciplines has enabled burn centers to develop collaborative methods of assessing the quality of care delivered to patients with burns. In this editorial we comment the paper of Duke et al. The authors highlight the importance of maintaining a long-term monitoring of children who suffered burns. The importance of this original study is to promote the reconsideration of clinical guides of long-term follow-up of burn patients.

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