Patient information

Burns Registry of Australia and New Zealand (BRANZ)


Information (data) on your admission is routinely sent to the Burns Registry of Australia and New Zealand (BRANZ).  Your privacy is protected as the information does not contain any information which may be used to identify you ie. no name, no address, no hospital record number and no photographs. The information is combined to that of many other patients, such that your specific injury cannot be identified in any reports.

Consent

You can freely choose not to have your information recorded,  however you are required to request this to occur.

Your decision will not in any way influence the high quality care you will receive.

If you prefer not to have your information recorded, either:

  1. fill out the online request to have your information removed
  2. call the data manager on (07) 3646-3262, or
  3. tell a member of the burn care team

The Burns Registry of Australia and New Zealand (BRANZ) is a clinical quality registry collecting epidemiological, quality of care, and outcome data for adult and paediatric burn patients across Australian and New Zealand burn units. The project is a collaboration between the Australian and New Zealand Burn Association (ANZBA) and Monash University, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine (DEPM).

The overall purpose of the registry is to monitor the causes and incidence of burn injury, to identify objective and verifiable data on treatment, outcomes and quality of care with the principal objective to encourage higher standards of both burn injury prevention and patient care.

Information submitted consists of:

your date of birth, gender, ethnicity and postcode

  1. date, time and location of your injury and admission
  2. type of burn injury
  3. first aid received
  4. site (location on your body) and size of your burn
  5. treatment you received, including in the intensive care unit
  6. complications, if applicable
  7. weight assessment
  8. codes for specific diagnoses and procedures

Contact us

Burns Outpatient Clinic
Location: Level 1 Dr James Mayne Building
Phone: (07) 3646 6738

Professor Stuart Pegg Adult Burns Unit (Ward 4C)
Location: Level 4 Dr James Mayne Building
Phone: (07) 3646 3273

Need help outside hours?

For non-urgent medical issues call 13 HEALTH (13 43 25 84) or visit your GP.

In an emergency call 000.