Foreign-National Burn Patients in a Border-Region Burn Center

This retrospective cohort study will evaluate burn patients hospitalized and treated at the Burn Center of Gaziantep City Hospital between October 2023 and June 2026. The study aims to compare demographic characteristics, burn severity, clinical course, and in-hospital outcomes between Turkish citizens and foreign-national burn patients. Data will be obtained retrospectively from patient files, discharge summaries, intensive care records, operative notes, and the hospital information management system. Variables will include age, sex, nationality status, burn etiology, total body surface area burned, inhalation injury, sepsis, intensive care unit admission, mechanical ventilation requirement, surgical treatment requirement, number of operations, length of hospital stay, discharge status, transfer to another center, and in-hospital mortality. No additional intervention, diagnostic test, treatment, or follow-up procedure will be performed as part of this study. All analyses will be conducted using anonymized or coded retrospective clinical data.

Inclusion Criteria: Patients hospitalized and treated with a diagnosis of burn injury at the Burn Center of Gaziantep City Hospital between October 2023 and June 2026. Patients with a confirmed diagnosis of burn injury in patient files, discharge summaries, or hospital information management system records. Patients whose nationality status can be classified as Turkish citizen or foreign-national according to hospital records. Patients with available basic demographic, clinical, and in-hospital outcome data. Patients of all age groups and both sexes. Exclusion Criteria: Patients treated outside the predefined study period. Patients without a confirmed diagnosis of burn injury. Patients evaluated only in the outpatient setting without hospitalization. Patients with missing nationality data. Patients with insufficient demographic or clinical outcome data for analysis. Duplicate records related to the same burn event; only the first hospitalization will be included. Patients evaluated only for consultation without hospitalization at the Burn Center of Gaziantep City Hospital. \-