[State, effectiveness and improvement of the quality of care for burn patients]

The data on the incidence of burns in Ukraine, provision with a specialized hospital stock, level of specialized aid, terms of transfer of the burned patients from the central district hospital, central city hospital, specific weight of the operative interventions performed for thermal injuries, general operative activity, lethality both of the adults and children with burns are presented. The ways for improving the quality of a specialized aid are outlined, new techniques of skin plasty operations are suggested. Particular attention is given to quality of rendering help in central district hospital, central city hospital. The ways for reduction of lethality in burns are shown. The importance of conservative and operative rehabilitation of burn convalescents, possibility of essential enhancing their social and vocational rehabilitation are stressed.