The Relationship of Rehabilitation Therapy Time To The Prevention of Burn Scar Contracture

American Burn Association386 enrolled

Overview

This project will develop a descriptive database of patient information and patient outcomes. This database will be used to determine the association of time spent in rehabilitation and patient outcomes, to relate patient acuity to burn scar contracture development and to establish minimal time requirement guidelines for various rehabilitation patient outcomes.

Study Type

OBSERVATIONAL

Enrollment

386

Conditions

Burns

Interventions

Routine post burn rehabilitation therapyOTHER

No testing outside of routine clinical rehabilitation will be performed

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 YearsMax age: 90 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * 18 year of age or older * Admission for primary diagnosis of cutaneous burn injury * Anticipated length of stay equal to/greater than five days * \>2% deep partial thickness burn OR hand burn (which may be less than 2% deep partial thickness burn) Exclusion Criteria: * Non-survivable burn as determined by the attending burn surgeon * Electrical burn injury

Locations (14)

Arizona Burn Center

Phoenix, Arizona, United States

University of Califronia Irvine

Orange, California, United States

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Measure patient outcome in terms of time devoted to rehabilitation

Standard information that is recorded as part of daily routine in the rehabilitation treatment of patients with burn injury will be used as data to analyze patient outcomes

Time frame: At discharge

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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