ArticleWound repair and regeneration : official publication of the Wound Healing Society [and] the European Tissue Repair Society2019
Patient-reported scar quality of adults after burn injuries: A five-year multicenter follow-up study.
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- Life after Burn, Part I: Health-Related Quality of Life, Employment and Life Satisfaction.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2022Article
- Assessing Health-Related Quality of Life of Adult Patients with Intermediate Burns: The Added Value of an Itching and Cognition Item for the EQ-5D: A Retrospective Observational Study.European burn journal · 2022Article
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- Activity Impairment, Work Status, and Work Productivity Loss in Adults 5-7 Years After Burn Injuries.Journal of burn care & research : official publication of the American Burn Association · 2022Article
- Scar quality in children with burns 5-7 years after injury: A cross-sectional multicentre study.Wound repair and regeneration : official publication of the Wound Healing Society [and] the European Tissue Repair Society · 2021Article
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Abstract
Scar formation is an important adverse consequence of burns. How patients appraise their scar quality is often studied shortly after sustaining the injury, but information in the long-term is scarce. Our aim was, therefore, to evaluate long-term patient-reported quality of burn scars. Adults with a burn center admission of ≥1 day between August 2011 and September 2012 were invited to complete a questionnaire on long-term consequences of burns. We enriched this sample with patients with severe burns (>20% total body surface area [TBSA] burned or TBSA full thickness >5%) treated between January 2010 and March 2013. Self-reported scar quality was assessed with the Patient Scale of the Patient and Observer Scar Assessment Scale (POSAS). Patients completed this scale for their-in their opinion-most severe scar ≥5 years after burns. This study included 251 patients with a mean %TBSA burned of 10%. The vast majority (91.4%) reported at least minor differences with normal skin (POSAS item score ≥2) on one or more scar characteristics and 78.9% of the patients' overall opinion was that their scar deviated from normal skin. Patients with severe burns had higher POSAS scores, representing worse scar quality, than patients with mild/intermediate burns, except for color, which was high in both groups. A longer hospital stay predicted reduced scar quality (both mean POSAS and mean overall opinion of the scar) in multivariate analyses. In addition, female gender was also associated with a poorer overall opinion of the scar. In conclusion, this study provides new insights in long-term scar quality. Scars differed from normal skin in a large part of the burn population more than 5 years after burns, especially in those with severe burns. Female gender is associated with a poorer patients' overall opinion of their scar, which may be an indication of gender differences in perception of scar quality after burns.
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