Skin elasticity meter or subjective evaluation in scars: A reliability assessment

Burns

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 109-114

  Draaijers, Lieneke J ^a,b   Botman, Yvonne A M ^a   Tempelman, Fenike R H ^a   Kreis, Robert W ^a,b   Middelkoop, Esther ^a,c   Van Zuijlen, Paul P M ^a,d  

^a RED CROSS HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c Dutch Burn Centres   (Netherlands)

^d ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Correlation; Quantification of scar pliability; Reliability; Validity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DEVICE; ELASTICITY; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; OBSERVER VARIATION; PARAMETER; PLIABILITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; SCAR; SKIN EXAMINATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VALIDATION PROCESS; VISCOELASTICITY;

EID: 1042289382     PISSN: 03054179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.burns.2003.09.003     Document Type: Article

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