The aim of this study was to review and critically assess the most used and clinimetrically
sound outcome measures currently available for postsurgical scar assessment in …

Assessing burn scars from photographs is a common practice given the growing trend to
support health service delivery via electronic media (eg, email, videoconferencing). Scar …

At our current level of understanding, scars are an unavoidable result of disruption of the
integument following trauma and other sources of injury in the postnatal period. Millions of …

Introduction In this study, we examined the plausibility of the mediating effect of the levels of
patient scar assessment on the relationship between burn severity measured with total body …

Introduction Despite the fact that millions of scars affect individuals annually, little is known
about their psychosocial impact and overall quality of life (QOL) on individuals. Scars from …

Purpose To translate and culturally adapt the Patient and Observer Scar Assessment Scale,
POSAS, to Norwegian and explore its test-retest, intra-and inter-tester reliability. Methods …

At the 2016 State of the Science meeting, clinicians and burn survivors met to discuss the
advances in scar prevention, evaluation and treatment. While emerging evidence exists to …

Long‐term outcome of burn scars as well as the relation with clinically relevant parameters
has not been studied quantitatively. Therefore, we conducted a detailed analysis on the …

The effect of the “Patient and Observer Scar Assessment Scale”(POSAS) and “Vancouver
Scar Scale”(VSS) on patients' quality of life and their correlation with objective scar …

Purpose To clarify and elaborate on the choices that were made in the development of the
Patient Scale of the Patient and Observer Scar Assessment Scale 3.0 (POSAS 3.0), based …