ArticlePlastic and reconstructive surgery. Global open2015
The Importance of Hand Appearance as a Patient-Reported Outcome in Hand Surgery.
Article in Plastic and reconstructive surgery. Global open, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.
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13 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Hand Rejuvenation by Autologous Fat Grafting in Post-Hansen's Hand Atrophy: Aesthetic and Psychological Implications.Indian journal of plastic surgery : official publication of the Association of Plastic Surgeons of India · 2024Article
- The Aesthetics of Digit Amputation.Hand (New York, N.Y.) · 2023Article
- Patient expectations and satisfaction in hand surgery: A new assessment approach through a valid and reliable survey questionnaire.PloS one · 2022Article
- The case for skin camouflage in the management of upper limb scarring - A case series.Hand therapy · 2021Article
- Appearance of congenital hand anomalies.Scandinavian journal of surgery : SJS : official organ for the Finnish Surgical Society and the Scandinavian Surgical Society · 2021Article
- Transverse or longitudinal? A survey of volar wrist incision preferences.Singapore medical journal · 2020Article
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Abstract
Hand appearance is meaningful to patients because hands are an essential part of human interactions, communication, and social integration. Recent literature indicates that hand aesthetics is an important, measurable patient-reported outcome. In hand surgery, several outcome instruments exist that accurately measure functional outcomes, but aesthetics is often overlooked or imprecisely measured. This makes comparison of disease burden and effectiveness of therapies, as they pertain to aesthetics, difficult. This special topic article outlines the aesthetic features of the hand, how literature is evaluating the appearance of the hand in outcomes research, and proposes a novel approach to assessing hand aesthetics.
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