Division of overall duration of stay into operative stay and postoperative stay improves the overall estimate as a measure of quality of outcome in burn care

• Islam Abdelrahman ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Islam Abdelrahman, Moustafa Elmasry, Ingrid Steinvall

  Affiliations Plastic Surgery Unit, Surgery Department, Suez Canal University, Ismailia, Egypt, Department of Plastic Surgery, Hand Surgery, and Burns, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

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• Moustafa Elmasry ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Islam Abdelrahman, Moustafa Elmasry, Ingrid Steinvall

  Affiliations Plastic Surgery Unit, Surgery Department, Suez Canal University, Ismailia, Egypt, Department of Plastic Surgery, Hand Surgery, and Burns, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

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• Pia Olofsson ,

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Department of Plastic Surgery, Hand Surgery, and Burns, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

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• Ingrid Steinvall ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Islam Abdelrahman, Moustafa Elmasry, Ingrid Steinvall

  * E-mail: ingrid.steinvall@regionostergotland.se

  Affiliations Department of Plastic Surgery, Hand Surgery, and Burns, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

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• Mats Fredrikson ,

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

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• Folke Sjoberg

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Department of Plastic Surgery, Hand Surgery, and Burns, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden, Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

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