Development of a New Patient-reported Outcome Instrument to Evaluate Treatments for Scars

BACKGROUND: Every year millions of individuals acquire scars. A literature review of patient-reported outcome (PRO) instruments identified content limitations in existing scar-specific measures. The aim of this study was to develop a new PRO instrument called SCAR-Q for children and adults with surgical, traumatic, and burn scars. METHODS: We performed a secondary analysis of the qualitative datasets used in the development of PRO instruments …