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Objective: To understand health professionals’ perspectives of burn care and rehabilitation.Design: Qualitative and semi-structured interviews.Setting: Australian burn and rehabilitation units.Participants: Twenty-two clinicians working in burns units across disciplines and healthcare settings.Results: The data portrayed the health professionals’ perspectives of burn care and rehabilitation inAustralia. Three themes were identified: (1) interprofessional collaboration; (2) integrated community care,and (3) empowering patients to self-care.Conclusion: Burn care and rehabilitation remains a complex and a challenging area of care with limitedaccess to burn services especially in rural and remote areas. Interprofessional training and education ofhealth professionals involved with the complex care of burn injury remains a key element to support andsustain the long-term rehabilitation requirements for patients and their families. Empowering patients todevelop independence early in their rehabilitation is fundamental to their ongoing recovery. A burnsmodel of care that embraces a multidisciplinary collaboration and integrated care across the continuumhas the potential to positively impact recovery and improve health outcomes.

Item Type:	Article
Authors/Creators:	Kornhaber, R and Rickard, G and McLean, L and Wiechula, R and Lopez, V and Cleary, M
Keywords:	Burns; health services; models of care; qualitative research; rehabilitation; telemedicine
Journal or Publication Title:	Disability and Rehabilitation
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
ISSN:	0963-8288
DOI / ID Number:	https://doi.org/10.1080/09638288.2017.1406009
Copyright Information:	Copyright 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group
Related URLs:	Google Scholar: Kornhaber, R UTAS Profile: Kornhaber, R Google Scholar: Rickard, G UTAS Profile: Rickard, G Google Scholar: Cleary, M UTAS Profile: Cleary, M
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