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Health-related quality of life and patient burden in patients with split-thickness skin graft donor site wounds
- Source :
- Int Wound J
- Publication Year :
- 2018
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Abstract
- Split-thickness skin grafting is a common procedure to treat different kinds of wounds. This systematic, multicentre, observational, cross-sectional study of adult patients with split-thickness skin graft (STSG) donor site wounds was conducted to evaluate quality of life (QoL) impairments caused by donor site wounds following split-thickness skin grafting. Therefore, 112 patients from 12 wound centres in Germany were examined based on patient and physician questionnaires as well as a physical examination of the donor site wound. Most indications for skin grafting were postsurgical treatment (n = 51; 42.5%) and chronic wounds (n = 47; 39.2%). European QoL visual analoque scale (EQ VAS) averaged 64.7 ± 23.3, European QoL 5 dimensions (EQ-5D) averaged 77.4 ± 30.0. Wound-QoL (range: 0-4) was rated 0.8 ± 0.8 post-surgery and 0.4 ± 0.6 at the time of survey (on average 21 weeks between the time points). Compared to averaged Wound-QoL scores of chronic wounds donor site-related QoL impairments in split-thickness skin-graft patients were less pronounced. There were significant differences in patient burden immediately after surgery compared to the time of the survey, with medium effect sizes. This supports the hypothesis that faster healing of the donor site wound leads to more favourable patient-reported outcomes.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
medicine.medical_specialty
medicine.medical_treatment
Medizin
Physical examination
Dermatology
Transplant Donor Site
030207 dermatology & venereal diseases
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Quality of life
Split thickness skin graft
Germany
medicine
Humans
Surgical Wound Infection
In patient
Aged
Health related quality of life
Wound Healing
Adult patients
medicine.diagnostic_test
integumentary system
business.industry
030208 emergency & critical care medicine
Original Articles
Skin Transplantation
Middle Aged
Surgery
Patient burden
Cross-Sectional Studies
Chronic Disease
Quality of Life
Skin grafting
Female
business
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Int Wound J
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....c559a96a36302504591e67a731ebb399