Table 2 Process quality indicators

Burn patient assessment

 1. Inhalation injury assessment [9, 17,18,19,20]

 2. Evaluation by surgeon/nurse within 24 h after admission [4]

 3. Total body surface area (TBSA) assessment [2, 9, 20, 21]

 4. Evaluation of other wound characteristics in addition to the TBSA [16, 20, 21]

 5. Mortality risk assessment [22,23,24,25,26,27]

 6. Time of physical-functional assessment [2, 4, 9, 20]

 7. Weight and height assessment on admission and during hospitalisation [4, 28,29,30]

 8. Calculation of Body Mass Index (BMI) [29, 31, 32]

 9. Malnutrition risk assessment and nutritional assessment [2, 30]

 10. Indication of artificial feeding [28, 30]

 11. Time of psychosocial assessment [2, 8, 9]

 12. Pain assessment on admission and during hospitalisation [2, 33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42,43]

 13. Nurse's perception of pain [43]

 14. Surveillance of infection at admission [4]

 15. Evaluation of pruritis during hospitalisation [7, 33]

Burn patient treatment

 16. Need for decompression procedure [2, 9, 20, 44, 45]

 17. Estimation of resuscitation fluid volume [2, 9, 46]

 18. Elapsed time from injury to initiate resuscitation [19]

 19. Resuscitation fluid volume and urinary output [16, 20, 46,47,48]

 20. Albumin use [49, 50]

 21. Monitoring of resuscitation volume [9, 46, 48, 51]

 22. Time from admission to start feeding [2, 4, 8, 9, 28, 29, 52, 53]

 23. Energy and protein needs [7, 28,29,30, 32, 54, 55]

 24. Total calories offered and ingested by the patient [7, 9, 20, 28,29,30,31,32, 54,55,56]

 25. Use of glutamine and oxandrolone [9, 20]

 26. Diet markers [9, 20, 29,30,31, 54, 55, 57, 58]

 27. Micronutrient supplementation [30, 54]

 28. Duration of hydrotherapy in minutes [43]

 29. Total number of dressings during hospitalisation [59]

 30. Total number of surgical procedures [35, 60,61,62,63,64]

 31. Duration of surgical procedures [16, 61, 62, 65,66,67,68]

 32. Time from admission to first surgical excision [4, 8, 19]

 33. Time to complete eschar removal [2, 4, 9, 20, 44, 45, 67]

 34. Incidence and percentage area of excised wounds treated surgically [44, 45]

 35. Days from injury to first grafting and from first to last grafting [16, 59]

 36. Number of grafting procedures and percentage of wound grafted [16, 40, 44, 45, 59, 60, 69]

 37. Patient/caregiver understanding of the surgical procedure [7]

 38. Patient/caregiver satisfaction with the postoperative period [7]

 39. Pain management [7, 8, 34, 36, 37, 70]

 40. Duration of rehabilitation in days [71]

 41. Rest time in bed [71]

 42. Registration of mobility level [72]

 43. Palliative care assessment [2]

Prophylactic measures

 44. Anticoagulation prophylaxis [2]

 45. Hand hygiene adherence rate [15, 73]

 46. Preventive measures for central venous catheter-associated infections [73]

 47. Preventive measures for ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) [73]

Complications

 48. Complications of resuscitation volume [7, 46, 48]

 49. Positive blood cultures and pathogen identification [2, 18]

 50. Incidence of healthcare-associated infections [7, 9, 18, 20, 35, 40, 52, 53, 56, 58, 59, 63, 66, 68, 73,74,75,76,77,78]

 51. Incidence and duration of sepsis [7, 19, 52, 62, 66, 74]

 52. Incidence of renal complications [4, 19, 52]

 53. Unplanned extubation rate [79]

 54. Incidence of organ dysfunction [48, 53, 77]

 55. Readmission to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) [2]

 56. Incidence of decubitus ulcers/maintenance of the integrity of unburned skin [7, 80]

 57. Diet-related complications [55, 56]

 58. Incidence of bronchoalveolar aspiration [56]

 59. Incidence of perioperative hypothermia [66, 81]

 60. Need for re-grafting [9, 20, 68, 74]

 61. Blood loss during surgery [44, 45, 62, 68, 78, 82, 83]

 62. Rehabilitation-related complications [84]

 63. Anxiety assessment [7, 36, 39, 42, 85, 86]

 64. Depression assessment [9, 20, 85]

 65. Acute stress disorder assessment [9, 20]

 66. Self-esteem assessment [85]

 67. Sleep quality assessment [7, 36, 86]

 68. Monitoring of hypermetabolism [7, 29, 57]

 69. Other complications [19, 30, 33, 41, 63, 66, 74, 87]

Other process indicators

 70. Nursing empathy with the burn patient [88]

 71. Patient/caregiver understanding of post-hospital care [7]

 72. Resolvability [60]