Exploring reliability of scar rating scales using photographs of burns from children aged up to 15 years.

Assessing burn scars from photographs is a common practice given the growing trend to support health service delivery via electronic media (eg, email, videoconferencing). Scar rating scales, originally designed for in-person assessment, have been used to rate scars from photographic images. Evidence for the reliability of this practice is lacking.

Considerations for occupational therapy assessment for Indigenous children in Australia.

Background: To date, the literature specifically relating to occupational therapy assessment of Australian Indigenous children is lacking. This article aims to present occupational therapists with practice guidelines for conducting assessments with primary school-aged Indigenous children in Australia. It highlights key considerations to be made prior to assessment, reviews potentially culturally relevant assessment tools and discusses key principles to guide assessment practice.

A computational study of the intramolecular deprotonation of a carbon acid in aqueous solution.

Proton transfer reactions are the rate-limiting steps in many biological and synthetic chemical processes, often requiring complex cofactors or catalysts to overcome the generally unfavourable thermodynamic process of carbanion intermediate formation. It has been suggested that quantum tunnelling processes enhance the kinetics of some of these reactions, which when coupled to protein motions may be an important consideration for enzyme catalysis. To obtain a better fundamental and quantitative understanding of these proton transfer mechanisms, a computational analysis of the intramolecular proton transfer from a carbon acid in the small molecule, 4-nitropentanoic acid, in aqueous solution is presented.