About Burn Wiki
Burn Wiki is an open-access clinical reference for burn care. Each clinical claim on each page links to its primary PubMed-indexed source. Each page clears a multi-gate evidence-anchoring pipeline before publication. Three topics are currently live.
Audience
Primary: burn and critical-care physicians, surgical trainees, and advanced practice providers. Content also serves nursing, rehabilitation, pharmacy, social work, and research readers. Open access; no account required.
How content is built
A large language model drafts each topic from a corpus of primary sources. Each page then passes through a multi-gate review pipeline: literature search, claim extraction, citation verification, internal review, external clinician review, and editor-in-chief sign-off. Pages go live only after every gate passes.
Each clinical claim on a Burn Wiki page is locked to its specific PubMed-indexed source rather than to a page-level bibliography. This makes claims individually re-reviewable as literature evolves, reusable across topics that cite the same primary work, and separately signed off by reviewers.
Evidence standards
Each topic carries an evidence-level badge (High, Moderate, Low–Moderate, Low, Expert Consensus) reflecting the strength of the underlying literature. Every cited source is a PubMed-indexed primary work. Textbook chapters are read for bibliography only — their cited PMIDs enter the corpus, but their body text never appears on a Burn Wiki page as authority for a claim.
Editorial independence
Burn Wiki has no commercial sponsors, no advertising, and no industry funding. Editorial decisions are driven by clinical relevance and evidence availability.
Editorial team
Editor in Chief
Justin Gillenwater, MD, MS, FACS, FABA