The Relationship of Rehabilitation Therapy Time To The Prevention of Burn Scar Contracture (ACT)

American Burn Association

Status: Completed

Conditions: Burns

Treatments: Other: Routine post burn rehabilitation therapy

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other; Other U.S. Federal agency

Identifiers

NCT01161810

ABA-MCTG-0003

H-08-028 (Other Grant/Funding Number)

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Enrollment: 386 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 90 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

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

Trial design

386 participants in 1 patient group

Post-Burn Rehabilitation

Description:

Patients with an acute burn injury who are admitted to the hospital with anticipated length of stay of 5 days or greater

Treatment:

Other: Routine post burn rehabilitation therapy