Burns
Volume 33, Issue 1 , Pages 37-45 , February 2007

Long-term risk factors for impaired burn-specific health and unemployment in patients with thermal injury

  • Asgjerd Litleré Moi

      Affiliations

    • Section of Nursing Science, Department of Public Health and Primary Health Care, University of Bergen, Kalfarveien 31, N-5018 Bergen, Norway
    • Department of Plastic Surgery and Burn Center, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +47 55586149; fax: +47 55586130.
    • ,
  • Tore Wentzel-Larsen

      Affiliations

    • Centre for Clinical Research, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway
    • ,
  • Lars Salemark

      Affiliations

    • Department of Plastic Surgery and Burn Center, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway
    • ,
  • Berit Rokne Hanestad

      Affiliations

    • Section of Nursing Science, Department of Public Health and Primary Health Care, University of Bergen, Kalfarveien 31, N-5018 Bergen, Norway

,Accepted 1 June 2006.

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PII: S0305-4179(06)00181-1

doi: 10.1016/j.burns.2006.06.002

Burns
Volume 33, Issue 1 , Pages 37-45 , February 2007

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