Japanese Society for Burn Injuries Burn Registry 2011

Abstract

In April 2011, the Japanese Society for Burn Injuries (JSBI) Burn Registry 2011 was launched to develop guidelines and enhance the quality of burn care in the country. By the end of March 2022, there were 120 facilities involved, and the total number of registrations exceeded 20,000. The registry was established as a web-based database, and its scope included requests for data entry from each registered facility. The survey covered both acute treatment and reconstructive surgery in the chronic phase. In this research, we reported the current status of burn care in Japan, based on the JSBI burn registry 2011 data from April 2011 to March 2021. Our data might reflect the currently provided quality by major medical institutions in Japan. However, after 11 years of functioning, this registry was supposed to have become inadequately informative because of the changes in treatment and the revised JSBI clinical practice guidelines for the management of burn care. Since April 2023, the contents and system of the JSBI burn registry 2023 have been completely revised. Nevertheless, we hope that the results of this analysis can be applied by future generations to further improve burn care.