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Swedish Network for Burn Research (SwedBurn)
Overview
Severe burns are life threatening and can have devastating functional,
psychological and social consequences for the patient and his or her close
persons. SwedBurn is a nationwide, multidisciplinary collaboration focused on
research on burns aiming to improve prevention, treatment and rehabilitation
of burn-related health problems. SwedBurn research emanates from the two
centres that since year 2010 have the national responsibility for delivering
specialized burn care in Sweden, the Linköping and Uppsala Burn Centres.
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network consists of preclinical scientists, physicians specialized in intensive
care, plastic surgery and psychiatry, clinical psychologists, and registered
nurses specialized in intensive care, psychiatry and district nursing.
The working hypothesis
The working hypothesis is an interaction model of adaptation, where several individual
and contextual factors interact to shape the process of adaptation and outcome. These factors
span from genes to the community and involve factors that indicate individual vulnerability
or resilience, such as psychiatric history prior to the burn, but also the response to the burn
itself and the integrated effect of the long intensive care period. Outcome is broadly defined in medical,
psychological and social terms. Specific outcomes that we devote much interest are health-related quality
of life, return to work, cognitive function, psychiatric morbidity in the form of posttraumatic stress
disorder and depression, and care-related outcomes such as patient satisfaction. In addition, development
and evaluation of instruments and interventions is an important part of our research approach, as are studies
on physical sequels of the injury such as severe scarring.
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Further reading
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Previous core publications within the network ->
About burns and burn care ->
Significance of the research ->
University Departments
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