Researchers from Isfahan University of Medical Sciences Report on Findings in Burn Care Research (‘Poverty’s scar: A qualitative inquiry of financing shortcomings in specialized burn hospitals)

2020 DEC 22 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Economics Daily Report -- Current study results on Health and Medicine - Burn Care Research have been published. According to news reporting from Isfahan, Iran, by NewsRx journalists, research stated, “Victims of burn have particular characteristics such as high vulnerability, expensive treatment, and cost of burn services. Thus, the financing of burn services is crucially important.”

Financial support for this research came from Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.

The news correspondents obtained a quote from the research from the Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, “The purpose of the present work is to recognize the financing challenges in Iranian specialized burn hospitals (SBHs). In the present qualitative descriptive research, purposive sampling was used for selecting key informants with maximum variation at local, provincial, and national levels. Semi-structured interviews were used for data collection. Interviews were continued as long as the saturation point was achieved at the 21 st interview. We employed conventional content analysis using an inductive data-driven coding process and theme development for the analysis of the transcribed documents by MAXQDA Analytics Pro 2018 (VERBI GmbH Release 18.2.0 Berlin). We extracted 3 themes and 12 sub-themes, including resource mobilization (the poor burnt victims, unique feature of the single-SBH, high direct and indirect costs, and poor intra-sectoral advocacy), insurance coverage for burn care (incomplete breadth of population coverage, inadequate depth of benefits package and coverage of costs, and reimbursements of burn care) and mechanism of financial resource allocation (unsuitable payment system, less sustainable budgeting, inappropriate tariffing for burning services, top-down budgeting approach, and politicized budget process). We suggest that health policy-makers in Iran could modify the SBHs financing system by improving resource mobilization, scaling up insurance coverage for burns, and optimizing the allocation of financial resources. Besides, we propose several points for policy entry to address SBHs financial difficulties.”

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “These points are serious attention to vulnerable and the poor burn patients, provision of burn care in multi-specialized hospitals, strengthening intra-collaboration, revision of tariffs, and payments for burn services, and preservation and realization of burn budgeting.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: ‘Poverty’s scar: A qualitative inquiry of financing shortcomings in specialized burn hospitals. Burns, 2020. Burns can be contacted at: Elsevier Sci LTD, the Boulevard, Langford Lane, Kidlington, Oxford OX5 1GB, Oxon, England. (Elsevier - www.elsevier.com; Burns - http://www.journals.elsevier.com/burns/)

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Mostafa Amini-Rarani, Health Management and Economics Research Center, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran. Additional authors for this research include Farzaneh Mohammadi, Nasrin Shaarbafchizadeh and Vahid Yazdi-Feyzabadi.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.burns.2020.10.029. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

Publisher contact information for the journal Burns is: Elsevier Sci LTD, the Boulevard, Langford Lane, Kidlington, Oxford OX5 1GB, Oxon, England.

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