Evaluation of Burn Care

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To the Editor: The recent paper by Linn, Stephenson and Smith1 provides some useful insights, particularly into the importance and difficulty of measurements of severity in burn injury, and the quantification of the economic penalties accruing to hospitals providing specialized burn care.Given the exceptional costs of specialized burn facilities, the questions raised in the article concerning the benefits of these facilities are highly important. The authors note that "Patients in hospitals with special facilities for burn care never did significantly better statistically in mortality or morbidity than patients in hospitals without such special facilities." Two important additional bits . . .

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