{"doi":"10.1093/jbcr/irae187","title":"Long-term Physical and Mental Health Outcomes of Older Adults Following a Major Burn Injury: A Burn Model System Investigation","abstract":"Older adults are at a higher risk of complications after burn injuries since many physical and mental changes are compounded by increasing age. Few studies have targeted the long-term effects of burns on older adults. Therefore, this study will investigate the long-term physical and mental health outcomes in older adults. About 3129 participants from the Burn Model System Database were divided into 3 cohorts based on their age at injury (18-54, 55-64, and 65+). Physical Component Summary (PCS) and Mental Component Summary (MCS) scores were derived from the 12-item Short Form (SF-12) and the Veterans RAND 12-item (VR-12) health surveys and analyzed to measure recovery at preinjury, discharge, 2-year follow-up, and 5-year follow-up. ANOVA, T-score analysis, and linear mixed-effects models were utilized to assess for significant differences in outcome scores. PCS scores were significantly different between the 18-54 cohort and 65+ cohorts at the preinjury and 2-year time intervals (P < .001 and P < .001, respectively) but not at the 5-year follow-up (P = .28). MCS scores were significantly different between the 18-54 cohort and 65+ cohorts at all time intervals measured (P = .001, P < .001, P < .001, and P = .005, respectively), though the change in MCS scores over time was not significantly different between age cohorts across time (P = .088). This supports that patients 65 years and older have a different physical function recovery trajectory when compared to patients under 64 years. These findings underscore the belief that for physical recovery after a burn injury, individualized physical rehabilitation plans will provide the most benefit for patients across all ages.","journal":"Journal of Burn Care & Research","year":2024,"id":469500,"datarank":0.23072026259159076,"base_score":1.3862943611198906,"endowment":1.3862943611198906,"self_citation_contribution":0.20794415416798362,"citation_network_contribution":0.02277610842360715,"self_endowment_contribution":0.20794415416798362,"citer_contribution":0.02277610842360715,"corpus_percentile":38.15270364353678,"corpus_rank":7994,"citation_count":3,"citer_count":2,"citers_with_citation_signal":1,"citers_with_endowment":1,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":true,"is_dataset_confidence":0.6326,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2024-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":421878,"name":"Barclay T. Stewart","orcid":"0000-0002-8099-9218","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1112342,"name":"Caitlin Orton","orcid":"0000-0003-3405-6064","position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":421877,"name":"Gretchen J. Carrougher","orcid":"0000-0002-1438-7483","position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":980766,"name":"Jeffrey C Schneider","orcid":"0000-0001-6652-7700","position":4,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1274642,"name":"Kyra Solis-Beach","orcid":null,"position":5,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":591980,"name":"Alyssa M. Bamer","orcid":"0000-0003-1550-9603","position":6,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":758475,"name":"Karen Kowalske","orcid":"0000-0003-2729-3328","position":7,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":421879,"name":"Samuel P. Mandell","orcid":"0000-0002-8426-4518","position":8,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1303174,"name":"Aaron K Hong","orcid":"0000-0002-8621-8574","position":0,"is_corresponding":true}],"reference_count":31,"raw_metadata":null,"created_at":"2026-07-19T02:05:32.241298Z","pmid":"39400121","pmcid":"PMC13031113","fwci":null,"citation_percentile":null,"influential_citations":0,"oa_status":null,"license":null,"views":0,"total_file_size_bytes":0,"version_count":0,"fair_f":null,"fair_a":null,"fair_i":null,"fair_r":null,"fair_zscore":null,"fair_rationale":null,"fair_model":null,"fair_agent_version":null,"fair_fulltext_source":null,"fair_has_llm":null,"fair_computed_at":null,"clinical_trials":[],"software_tools":[],"db_accessions":[],"linked_datasets":[],"topics":[]}