Citation

Johnson LS, Shupp JW. AMA J. Ethics 2018; 20(1): 567-574.

Affiliation

The director of the Burn Center at MedStar Washington Hospital Center and the director of the Burn Research program at MedStar Health Research Institute in Washington, DC, and an associate professor of surgery at the Georgetown University School of Medicine and the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, American Medical Association)

DOI

10.1001/journalofethics.2018.20.6.pfor1-1806

PMID

29905135

Abstract

While current evidence-based practices might be applicable to caring for patients with routine diseases and common injury patterns, their application to burn care is less clear. Quality metrics created for large patient populations have failed to account for diseases that are not included in landmark research. Tasked to provide not only medically appropriate but also high-quality and cost-effective care for patients, burn clinicians must find a balance between patient-specific quality metrics and external quality metrics.

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