Association Between Rehabilitation Frequency and Functional Outcomes After Burn Injury: A Single-Center Retrospective Analysis of Confounding by Indication

Injury characteristics, particularly the presence of a mixed-depth burn, emerged as the dominant predictors of long-term scar and functional outcomes. This study identifies mixed-depth burns as a potentially high-risk clinical phenotype requiring targeted therapeutic strategies and demonstrates the critical importance of accounting for confounding by indication when evaluating rehabilitation outcomes in observational burn research.