The complete National Burn Repository (NBR) 2007 report was distributed entirely electronically for the first time at the 2008 annual meeting of the American Burn Association (ABA) and represents countless hours spent by ABA staff and members of the NBR committee. The 2007 call for data resulted in the registry now containing data on over 300,000 burn patients treated by contributing hospitals. As in the past, this year's report reflects a rolling 10-year average; 1998–2007; representing over 181,000 acute burn admissions. Although there are holes in the data and some fields are spottily populated, the NBR still represents the largest single collection of data on the care and management of burned patients available today. The goal of the committee is to improve and strengthen the validity of the data in every way possible. The ABA TRACSTM Users' committee finalized the new data dictionary to accompany version five (v5) of the N-TRACS® Burn Module. This will go a long way in refining the data in the NBR and lead to a fuller and more robust data set. The members of the NBR committee and ABA staff contributed time to meet regularly during the past year to support the activities of the committee including the ‘Glimmers,’ quality assurance of the NBR, and the annual report. Bart Phillips and Susan Browning of the American Burn Association have done yeoman's service to the ABA by keeping the committee focused to produce this report in a timely fashion.
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