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Welcome to the UK National Burn Injury Database pages. There have been some change to this site. The domain www.nbid.org now brings you directly to these pages. The new domain www.ibidb.org takes you to the home-page of the iBID site. Please update your bookmarks accordingly. Background In common with many areas of medical specialty, there is an acceptance by clinical burn care teams that the collection and analysis of accumulative data about clinical cases is necessary to allow progress in several areas of service development and delivery. The list of the historically available data sources and a brief indication of their respective limitations were considered in the National Burn Care Review (NBCR, March 2001 available from the downloads page). In 2004 the National Burn Care Group (NBCG) decided to support the creation of the UK.NBID and fund the infrastructure to support it. In April 2005, the data collection and analysis started. Aims The availability of national data about burn injuries severe enough to require assessment by, or admission to general hospitals or specialised NHS services, would allow advances to be made in a number of areas:
Process One of the recommendations of the NBCR was the creation of a UK National Burn Injury Database, utilising data from a variety of information sources. The resultant design is to take UK data from the international Burn Injury Database (iBID), which represents data from specialised burn services in the UK. To this is added data from the UK National Health Service Hospital Episodes Statsistics (NHS HES available from the links page). This is also augmented by periodic comparison with data from the UK National Burn Bed Bureau (NBBB available from the links page). The first 2008 UK Data Report is now available from the downloads page. |