The Relationship of Rehabilitation Therapy Time To The Prevention of Burn Scar Contracture
- Conditions
- Burns
- Interventions
- Other: Routine post burn rehabilitation therapy
- Registration Number
- NCT01161810
- Lead Sponsor
- American Burn Association
- Brief Summary
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.
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 386
- 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)
- Non-survivable burn as determined by the attending burn surgeon
- Electrical burn injury
Study & Design
- Study Type
- OBSERVATIONAL
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description Post-Burn Rehabilitation Routine post burn rehabilitation therapy Patients with an acute burn injury who are admitted to the hospital with anticipated length of stay of 5 days or greater
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Measure patient outcome in terms of time devoted to rehabilitation At discharge 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
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method
Trial Locations
- Locations (14)
Regions Hospital Burn Center
🇺🇸Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States
St Elizabeth Regional Medical Center
🇺🇸Lincoln, Nebraska, United States
NewYork-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center
🇺🇸New York, New York, United States
U.S. army Institute of Surgical Research
🇺🇸Fort Sam Houston, Texas, United States
Loyola University Health System
🇺🇸Maywood, Illinois, United States
Arizona Burn Center
🇺🇸Phoenix, Arizona, United States
University of California Davis, Regional Burn Center
🇺🇸Sacramento, California, United States
Oregon Burn Center, Legacy Emanuel Hospital & Health Center
🇺🇸Portland, Oregon, United States
University of Utah Health Services Center
🇺🇸Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
University of Califronia Irvine
🇺🇸Orange, California, United States
St. Joseph Regional Burn Center
🇺🇸Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
🇺🇸Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics
🇺🇸Iowa City, Iowa, United States
Via Christi Regional Burn Center
🇺🇸Wichita, Kansas, United States