Terminology and methods used to differentiate injury intent of hospital burn patients in South Asia: Results from a systematic scoping review

•89 articles about hospital burn patients in South Asia met our inclusion criteria.•We extracted data on terminology, definition, and method of assessment of intent.•The most common classifier terms were accident, suicide, and homicide.•Definitions and methods of assessment were poorly described in many articles.•A common data element for intent may reduce misclassification in surveillance data.