Summary of characteristics of records included in this review*
| Characteristic | Category | Number of records (translational pipeline phase II)† | Number of records (translational pipeline phase III)† | Number of records (translational pipeline phase IV)† |
| Journal articles | ||||
| Funding source | Commercial | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Non-commercial | 23 | 13 | 0 | |
| Commercial and non-commercial | 2 | 1 | 1 | |
| No funding | 6 | 3 | 0 | |
| Not reported | 16 | 12 | 0 | |
| Population type | Adult | 27 | 16 | 0 |
| Paediatric | 6 | 4 | 0 | |
| Paediatric and adult | 13 | 7 | 2 | |
| Not reported | 3 | 3 | 0 | |
| Scar aetiology | Burn | 22 | 18 | 1 |
| Surgical‡ | 5 | 2 | 0 | |
| Mixed | 10 | 3 | 0 | |
| Not specified | 12 | 7 | 0 | |
| Abstracts | ||||
| Funding source | Commercial | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Non-commercial | 3 | 1 | 0 | |
| Commercial and non-commercial | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| No funding | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Not reported | 17 | 14 | 1 | |
| Population type | Adult | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| Paediatric | 0 | 3 | 0 | |
| Paediatric and adult | 4 | 1 | 0 | |
| Not reported | 15 | 9 | 1 | |
| Scar aetiology | Burn | 12 | 10 | 1 |
| Surgical‡ | 1 | 2 | 0 | |
| Mixed | 2 | 1 | 0 | |
| Not specified | 5 | 2 | 0 | |
Paediatric: measurement of patients under the age of 18 years; adult: measurement of patients aged 18 years or older; burn: scars caused by thermal, chemical or friction injury; surgical: scars caused by surgical procedures (including biopsies); mixed: scars of included record were of mixed origin (eg, burn and acne).
*A breakdown of each characteristic per record is presented in online supplemental table 2.
†Stage in the research to clinical practice translational pipeline, as defined by the Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care.36
‡Type of surgery defined in online supplemental table 2.