Current Status of US Children’s Burn Care and Opportunities for Change
The current landscape of children's burn care has strengths and opportunities in terms of access to care, care delivery, workforce and training, education, data and quality, and research. A national pediatric burn system will: (1) improve the understanding of "everyday" and expert burn care for children, (2) define gaps in children's burn care, including preparedness of the emergency care system where children initially receive care, and (3) anticipate action and implementation strategies to address these gaps.
Authors
- Kenneth W. Gow (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0509-298X)
- Renata Fabia
- James C. Jeng (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-9295-6782)
- Kathleen S Romanowski (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4431-2423)
- Erica Hodgman
Institutions
- University of Louisville (US)
- Johns Hopkins University (US)
- University of California, Irvine (US)
- Johns Hopkins Medicine (US)
- Shriners Hospitals for Children - Northern California (US)
- The Ohio State University (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Annals of Surgery Open
- Published
- 2026-01-20
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1097/as9.0000000000000641
- Primary Topic
- Burn Injury Management and Outcomes
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00