… burn treatment, the emphasis in modern burn care … scars, prevention, treatment, and
assessment of burn scars have become increasingly important. The first scale to assess (burn) scars …

… used in objective burn scar assessment. … burns, scar prevention, treatment and assessment
are of utmost importance. However, scar assessment is still a neglected area in the burn care…

… Scar contraction is mostly seen in burn scars, whereas scar expansion or widening is often
… Improved burn scar assessment with use of a new scar-rating scale. J Burn Care Rehabil …

… scales are available that use health-care professionals’ and patients’ opinions to score scar
characteristics. The subjective scales are more widely used in clinical practice over objective …

… One of the first scar assessment scales was created in 1988 in a burns institute in Boston
to measure burn-induced cosmetic disfigurement (6). Colour-slide photographs of 30 burn …

… “Rating the Burn Scar” addresses a criticalissue for … assessing burn scars does not exist in
today's burn literature.” They chose four criteria (pigmentation, vascularity, pliability) and scar …

… The aim of this study is to explore the diversity of cutaneous burn scar-related outcomes …
to cutaneous scarring using a previously developed comprehensive list of burn outcomes. …

… collected data from 100 burn patients in three burn centers specializing in burn care in South
Korea. Patient scar assessment, burn specific HRQL, and burn-related characteristics were …

… In the last few decades, major advances in burn care have greatly … for scar assessment. In
addition, we discuss innovative technologies that may be applicable to burn scar assessment …

… to burn care centers and identified differences in scar … 1) to assess the level of burn-specific
HRQOL and burn scar status by … scar assessment scale, and (2) to identify differences in scar …