Table 3.

Ten subsections in the Delivery Assessment Tool.

1.	Policies and procedures: referral, transfer, burn ward/beds, clinical guidelines and protocols, discharge planning and follow-up, non-survivable burns and palliative care, operational and management issues
2.	Burn service activities: burn prevention activities, training delivered to other services, research, and sustainability of key activities
3.	Burn care team: clinical lead, multi-disciplinary team, overall team capacity, access to other specialities, team communication/team meetings, training levels of burn care team.
4.	Surgery: surgical capacity, delivery of emergency surgery, early excision and skin grafting, reconstructive surgery.
5.	Nursing care and assessment: nursing capacity, assessment of the burn wound, infection control, dressings and wound care, paediatric care
6.	Treatment options: emergency care, critical care, pain management, nutrition, fluid resuscitation
7.	Rehabilitation services: physical rehabilitation capacity, anti-contracture positioning, mobilisation, splinting, scar management, access to therapy, therapy follow-up, contractures
8.	Patient support: psychosocial care, financial support for patients, social work and legal support for patients, support and consumables
9.	Outcomes and data capacity: documentation data collection and management, quality improvement and audit, mortality and morbidity, patient outcome measures, patient experience outcomes, capacity for data and outcomes collection
10.	Equipment and Facilities: this is a 52-item checklist of key equipment and facilities, based on the physical resources identified in the standards for each of the 3 levels of service.