Prospective randomised clinical trial of providing patients with audiotape recordings of their oesophagogastric cancer consultations.

Objective: To evaluate audiotape-recorded consultations at which a new diagnosis of oesophageal or gastric cancer was given to patients with reference to information retention, psychological outcome and socio-economic deprivation.

Methods: Fifty-eight patients were randomised to receive audiotaped consultations or not. Thirty-one patients received tapes (12 oesophageal and 19 gastric cancers) and were compared with 27 control patients (12 oesophageal and 15 gastric cancers).

Foot burns: epidemiology and management.

This is a retrospective study of the epidemiology and management of isolated foot burns presenting to the Welsh Centre for Burns from January 1998 to December 2002. A total of 289 were treated of which 233 were included in this study. Approximately 40% were in the paediatric age group and the gender distribution varied dramatically for adults and children.

Bangers, burgers and burns. A 10-year review of barbeque burns in South Wales.

This is a retrospective study of the epidemiology of barbeque burns presenting to the Welsh Centre for burns from January 1994 to December 2004. A total of 68 were treated of which 57 are included in this study 25% are in the paediatric age group. The epidemiology varies between adults and paediatrics.

Epidemiology, aetiology and management of abnormal scarring: a review of the literature.

Keloid and hypertrophic scars are the result of abnormal processes in scar formation. This paper reviews the literature and the many debates concerning the processes that cause abnormal scarring.

Body image and acute burn injuries: a literature review.

This article reviews the literature on adaptation to altered body image. An understanding of the factors affecting this may enable practitioners to help patients cope with the changes in body image caused by disfiguring burn injuries.