Burn injury characteristics, referral pattern, treatment (costs), and outcome in burn patients admitted to a hospital with or without a specialized Burn Centre (BURN-Pro).

"Declarations Conflict of interestThe authors declare that they have no competing interest. Ethics approval and consent to participateThe study was exempted by the Medical Research Ethics Committee Erasmus MC (Rotterdam, The Netherlands; registration number MEC-2017-357), and was registered at the Netherlands Trial Register (trial registration numbers NTR6565 and NL6382; date of registration 12-Jul-2017; www.trialregister.nl). Each participant, or parents/guardians, provided written informed consent. The study protocol has been published previously [21]. Consent for publicationNot applicable. Availability of data and materialAnonymized data analyzed for the current study will be shared if a reasonable request is made by a qualified investigator to the corresponding author. Conflict of interest The authors declare that they have no competing interest."

"Funding This research received a specific grant from the Dutch Burns Foundation (Beverwijk, the Netherlands; reference number WO/16.110). The funder of the study had no role in study design, data collection, data analysis, data interpretation, or writing of the report. The authors had complete access to the study data that support this publication."