Publications & Reports

Chai, H., Martin, L., Kornhaber, R., Cuttle, L., Fear, M., Wood, F. (2025). Cutaneous Chemical Burns: Water Irrigation First Aid Improves Short-term Outcomes, Journal of Burn Care & Research, iraf079

Chua, M., Teague, W. J., & Tracy, L. M. (2025). The Causes, Characteristics and Outcomes of Paediatric Farm Burns in Australia and New Zealand. The Australian Journal of Rural Health, 33(1), e70003

Singer, Y., Tracy, L. M., Malic, C., Martin, L., Gabbe, B., & Douglas, H. (2025). Burn violence against women in Australia: The tip of the iceberg from Australian burn centres. Journal of Burn Care & Research, iraf081. Advance online publication.

Tracy, L. M., Cameron, P. A., Cleland, H. J., Kimmel, L., Teague, W. J., & Gabbe, B. J. (2025). Quality of life and return to work rates in the first two years following major burn injury. Burns, 51(3), Article 107355 

Tracy, L.M., Cleland, H.J., de Steiger, R.N., Teague, W.J., Cameron, P.A., & Gabbe, B.J. (2025). Does Injury Type Influence Patient Preference, Response Rates, and Data Completeness for Online or Telephone Follow-up Following Injury? Injury, 56(2): 112060.

Tracy, L.M., Capell, E., Cleland, H.J., Edgar, D.W., Singer, Y., Teague, W.J., & Gabbe, B.J. (2025). Feasibility of collecting long-term patient-reported outcome data in burns patients using a centralised approach. Burns, 51(1): 107304.

Sharp, S., Tracy, L., Singer, Y., Schnekenburger, M., Burrell, A., Paton, A., Salerno, S., & Holden, D. (2024). Early Acute Kidney Injury in Adult Patients With Burns in Australia & New Zealand. Journal of Surgical Research, 303: 482-488

Cleland, H., Stewardson, A., Padiglione, A., & Tracy, L.M. (2024). Bloodstream infections and multidrug resistant bacteria acquisition among burns patients in Australia and New Zealand: A registry-based study. Burns, 50(6): 1544-1554.

Bebbington, E., Miles, J., Young, A., van Baar, M.E., Bernal, N., Brekke, R.L., van Dammen, L., Elmasry, M., Inoue, Y., McMullen, K.A., Paton, L., Thamm, O.C., Tracy, L.M., Zia, N., Singer, Y., & Dunn, K. (2024). Exploring the similarities and differences of burn registers globally: Results from a data dictionary comparison study. Burns, 50(4): 850-865.

Perkins, M., Cleland, H., Gabbe, B.J., & Tracy, L.M. (2024). Concordance between coding sources of burn size and depth across Australian and New Zealand specialist burn services. Health Information Management Journal, 53(2): 129-136.

Singer, Y., Gabbe, B.J., Cleland, H., Holden, D., Schnekenburger, M., & Tracy, L.M. (2023). The association between out of hours burn centre admission and in-hospital outcomes in patients with severe burns. Burns, 49(5): 1062-1072.

Lo, C.H., Tracy, L.M., Lam, C., Kimble, R., & Wong She, R.B. (2023). In-hospital outcomes of paediatric burn injuries managed in children’s hospitals compared to general hospitals. Burns, 49(6): 1297-1297.

Savage, N., Doherty, Z., Singer, Y., Menezes, H., Cleland, H., Goldie, S.J. (2023). A Review of Petrol Burns in Australia and New  Zealand. Journal of Burn Care and Research, 44(5): 1162-1168.

Tracy, L.M., Gabbe, B.J., Beck, B. (2023). Friction burns in cyclists: An under-recognised problem. Injury, 54(4): 1119-1124.

Kurmis, R., Nicholls, C., Singer, Y., Edgar, D.W., Wood, F.M., Gabbe, B.J., & Tracy, L.M. (2022). An investigation of early enteral nutrition provision in major burn patients in Australia and New Zealand. Nutrition & Dietetics, 79(5): 582-589.

Tracy, L.M., Darton, A., Gabbe, B.J., Heath, K., Kurmis, R., Lisec, C., Lo, C., Singer, Y., Wood, F.M., & Cleland, H. (2022). Examining the patient profile and variance of management and in-hospital outcomes for Australian adult burns patients. ANZ Journal of Surgery, 92(10): 2641-2647.

Hong, R., Perkins, M., Gabbe, B.J., Tracy, L.M. (2022). Comparing Peak Burn Injury Times and Characteristics in Australia and New Zealand. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19, 9578.

Singer. Y, Tracy, L.M., Menezes, H., Cleland, H., Perrett, T., Wood, F., & Harvey, L. (2022). “The home, the bathroom, the taps, and hot water”: The contextual characteristics of tap water scalds in Australia and New Zealand. Burns, 47(8): 1004-1012.

Perkins, M., Wood, F., Griffin, B., Gus, E., Carney, B., Teague, W.J., & Tracy, L.M. (2022). Variation in burn wound management approaches for paediatric burn patients in Australia and New Zealand. ANZ Journal of Surgery, 92(4): 753-758.

Moussa, A., Lo, C.H., & Cleland, H. (2021). Burn wound excision within 24 h: A 9-year review. Burns, 47(6): 1300-1307.

Gong, J., Tracy, L.M., Edgar, D.W., Wood, F.M, Singer, Y., & Gabbe, B.J. (2021). Poorer first aid after burn is associated with remoteness in Australia: Where to from here? Australian Journal of Rural Health, 29(4): 521-529.

Connolly, S.C., Bertinetti, M., Teague W.J., Gabbe, B.J., & Tracy, L.M. (2021). Sunburn Injuries Admitted to Burn Services in Australia and New Zealand. JAMA Dermatology, 157(6): 729-731.

Tracy, L.M., Cleland, H., Cameron, P.A, & Gabbe, B.J. (2021). Pain assessment following burn injury in Australia and New Zealand: Variation in practice and its association on in-hospital outcomes. Australasian Emergency Care, 24(1): 73-79.

Perkins, M., Abesamis, G.M.M., Cleland, H., Gabbe, B.J., & Tracy, L.M. (2021). Association between gender and outcomes of acute burns patients. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery, 91(1-2): 83-88.

Tracy, L.M., Cameron, P.A., Singer, Y., Earnest, A., Wood, F., Cleland, H., & Gabbe, B.J. (2021). Venous thromboembolism prophylaxis practice and its effect on outcomes in Australia and New Zealand burns patients. Burns & Trauma, tkaa044.

Gong, J., Singer, Y., Cleland, H., Wood, F., Cameron, P., Tracy, L.M., & Gabbe, B.J. (2021). Driving improved burns care and patient outcomes through clinical registry data: A review of quality indicators in the Burns Registry of Australia and New Zealand. Burns, 47(1): 14-24.

Ryder, C., Mackean, T., Hunter, K., Towers, K., Rogers, K., Holland, A.J.A., & Ivers, R. (2020). Factors contributing to longer length of stay in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children hospitalised for burn injury. Injury Epidemiology, 7; 52.

Tracy, L.M., Singer, Y., Schrale, R., Gong, J., Darton, A., Wood, F., Kurmis, R., Edgar, D., Cleland, H., & Gabbe, B.J. (2020). Epidemiology of burn injury in older adults: An Australian and New Zealand perspective. Scars, Burns & Healing, 6: 1-11.

Tracy, L.M., Dyson, K., Le Mercier, L., Cleland, H., McInnes, J.A., Cameron, P.A., Singer, Y. Edgar, D.W., Darton. A., & Gabbe, B.J., (2020). Variation in documented inhalation injury rates following burn injury in Australia and New Zealand. Injury, 51(5): 1152-1157.

Tracy, L.M., Edgar, D.W., Schrale, R., Cleland, H., & Gabbe, B.J., on behalf of the BRANZ Adult Long-Term Outcomes Pilot Project participating sites and working party (2020). Predictors of itch and pain in the 12 months following burn injury: Results from the Burns Registry of Australia and New Zealand (BRANZ) Long-Term Outcomes Project. Burns & Trauma, 8; tkz004.

Spronk, I., Edgar, D.W., van Barr, M.E., Wood, F.W., Van Loey, N.E.E., Middelkoop, E., Renneberg, B., Oster, C., Orwelius, L., Moi, A.L., Nieuwenhuis, M., van der Vlies, C.H., Polinder, S., & Haagsma, J.A. (2020). Improved and standardized method for assessing years lived with disability after burns and its application to estimate the non-fatal burden of disease of burn injuries in Australia, New Zealand and the Netherlands. BMC Public Health, 20: Article 121.

Toppi, J., Cleland, H., & Gabbe, B. (2019). Severe burns in Australian and New Zealand adults:
Epidemiology and burn centre care. Burns, 45(6): 1456-1461.

McInnes, J.A., Cleland, H.A., Cameron, P.A., Darton, A., Tracy, L.M., Wood, F.M., Singer, Y., & Gabbe, B.J. (2019). Epidemiology of burn-related fatalities in Australia and New Zealand, 2009-2015. Burns, 45(7):1553-1561.

McInnes, J.A., Cleland, H., Tracy, L.M., Darton, A., Wood, F.M., Perrett, T., & Gabbe, B.J. (2019) Epidemiology of work-related burn injuries presenting to burn centres in Australia and New Zealand. Burns 45(2): 484-493.

Read, D.J., Tan, S.C., Ward, L., & McDermott, K. (2017) Burns first aid treatment in remote Northern Australia. Burns 44(2): 481-487.

Gabbe, B.J., Cleland, H., Watterson, D., Schrale, R., McRae, S., Taggart, S., Darton, A., Wood, F., & Edgar, D.W. (2016) Predictors of moderate to severe fatigue 12 months following admission to hospital for burns: Results from the Burns Registry of Australia and New Zealand (BRANZ) Long Term Outcomes Project. Burns 42(8): 1652-1661.

Cleland, H., Greenwood, J.E., Wood, F.M., Read, D.J., Wong She, R., Maitz, P., Castley, A., Vandervord, J.G., Simcock, J., Adams, C.D., & Gabbe, B.J. (2016) The Burns Registry of Australia and New Zealand: progressing the evidence base for burn care. The Medical Journal of Australia 204(5): 1951-1957.

Wood, F.M., Phillips, M., Jovic, T., Cassidy, J.T., Cameron, P., & Edgar, D.W. (2016) Water First Aid Is Beneficial In Humans Post-Burn: Evidence from a Bi-National Cohort Study. PLoS One 11(1): e0147259.

Riedlinger, D.I., Jennings, P.A., Edgar, D.W., Harvey, J.G., Cleland, M.H.J., Wood, F.M., & Cameron, P.A. (2015) Scald burns in children aged 14 and younger in Australia and New Zealand - An analysis based on the Burn Registry of Australia and New Zealand (BRANZ). Burns 41(3): 462-8.

Cassidy, T.J., Edgar, D.W., Phillips, M., Cameron, P., Cleland, H., & Wood, F.M. (2015) Transfer time to a specialist burn service and influence on burn mortality in Australia and New Zealand: A multi-centre, hospital based retrospective cohort study. Burns 41(4): 735–741.

Gabbe, B.J., Cleland, H., Watterson, D.M., Schrale, R., McRae, S., Parker, C., Taggart, S. & Edgar, D. (2015). Long term outcomes data for the Burns Registry of Australia and New Zealand: It is feasible? Burns 41(8): 1732-1740.

Gabbe, B.J., Watterson, D.M., Singer, Y., & Darton, A. (2014). Outpatient presentations to burn centres: Data from the Burns Registry of Australia and New Zealand outpatient pilot project. Burns 41(3): 446-453.

Schricke, D.I., Jennings, P.A., Edgar, D., Harvey, J.H., Cleland H.J., Wood, F.M., & Cameron, P.A. (2012). Scald burns in children aged 14 and younger in Australia and New Zealand - an analysis of the Bi-National Burns Registry. Burns 41(3): 462-468.

Watterson, D., Gabbe, B.J., Cleland, H., Edgar, D., Cameron, P., & Members of the Bi-NBR Steering Committee. (2012) Developing the first Bi-National clinical quality registry for burns—Lessons learned so far. Burns 38(1): 52-60.

Watterson, D., Cleland, H., Darton, A., Edgar, D., Fong, J., Harvey, J., Kavanagh, S., Perrett, T., Singer, Y., Tonkin, C., & Cameron, P. (2011) Developing clinical quality indicators for a Bi-National Burn Registry. Burns 37(8): 1296-308.