About the Authors

Fiona M. Wood

Fiona.wood@health.wa.gov.au

Affiliations Burn Service of Western Australia, State Adult Burn Unit, Fiona Stanley Hospital, Murdoch, Western Australia, Australia, Burn Injury Research Unit, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia, Fiona Wood Foundation, Murdoch, Western Australia, Australia

Michael Phillips

Affiliation Perkins Institute of Medical Research, Royal Perth Hospital, Perth and University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia

Tom Jovic

Affiliations University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, Burn Service of Western Australia, Burn Unit, Royal Perth Hospital, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

John T Cassidy

Affiliations Burn Service of Western Australia, Burn Unit, Royal Perth Hospital, Perth, Western Australia, Australia, James Connolly Memorial Hospital, Blanchardstown, Dublin, Ireland

Peter Cameron

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Dale W. Edgar

Affiliations Burn Service of Western Australia, State Adult Burn Unit, Fiona Stanley Hospital, Murdoch, Western Australia, Australia, Fiona Wood Foundation, Murdoch, Western Australia, Australia, Burn Injury Research Node, The University of Notre Dame Australia, Fremantle, Western Australia, Australia

Steering Committee of the Burn Registry of Australia and New Zealand (BRANZ)

Membership of the BRANZ Steering Committee is available at http://www.branz.org/node/17.

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JTC TJ MP DE FW PC. Performed the experiments: JTC TJ MP DE FW. Analyzed the data: MP DE TJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MP. Wrote the paper: MP FW JTC TJ PC DE. Completed Ethics applications and gained approvals: JTC DE.