ArticleAnnals of burns and fire disasters2024
Burn hypertrophy scarring assessment based on patient and observer scar assessment scale (POSAS).
Article in Annals of burns and fire disasters, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
6 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Hypertrophic burn scars can occur due to imbalances in the healing process and affect quality of life. They can be assessed with the Patient and Observer Scar Assessment Scale (POSAS). This is an assessment instrument with both a patient scale and an observer scale. This study aimed to assess the reliability and validity of the POSAS score to measure the quality of scars in evaluating burns that produce scar tissue. It also aimed to determine similarities in the assessment of scar tissue using the POSAS score according to observers and patients. This cross-sectional study had a sample of 30 patients, including 19 women (63%). Assessments were performed before the initial treatment procedure and 1 and 6 months after. The post-incision scar tissue assessment results using the POSAS instrument were expressed as a score: 5-50 (observer), 6-60 (patient), or 11-110 (both total). The highest degree of burns was superficial-mid-dermal (20 patients; 67%). The POSAS assessment by doctors and patients tended to be the same and decreased at both months 1 and 6 after the treatment procedure. The mean total score was 51.3 ± 12.1 before treatment, 44.2 ± 9.5 at month 1, and 30.3 ± 5.9 at month 6. This study shows that in evaluating burns that produce hypertrophic scars, similarities exist in the POSAS score according to observers and patients. Precautions at the beginning of the observation will affect the POSAS score.
Indexed as
Identifiers
39741779PMC11649164What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.