Original articleAn objective device for measuring surface roughness of skin and scars
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Patients
From January until June 2009, 60 patients with burn scars were recruited from the scar consulting hours in the outpatient clinic, which are held once a week in our burn center. Patients aged 12 years or older with a burn scar of 3 to 18 months postburn were measured. Patients with burn scars smaller than the measuring frame of the PRIMOS (30 × 40 mm) were excluded as were patients who lacked adequate communicative and cognitive abilities.
Procedure
In this study, all measurements and assessments were
Results
In this study, normal-appearing skin and scars of 60 patients were assessed by means of the PRIMOS and the POSAS. Table I shows the patient characteristics.
Discussion
In past years, research has focused on the validation of subjective and objective measuring systems for the assessment of scars. Research into the prevention and treatment of scars requires an easily applicable, objective measuring tool. In this study, a new measuring device for surface roughness was introduced, which was shown to be reliable and valid in assessing scarred and nonscarred skin. To our knowledge, no publication concerning the reliability and validity of the PRIMOS has been
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Financed by Fonds Nuts Ohra, a nonprofit foundation supporting research with no professional interest in the design and outcome of this study.
Conflicts of interest: None declared.