Transepidermal water loss and incidence of hand dermatitis in a prospectively followed cohort of apprentice nurses

Contact Dermatitis

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 247-253

  Schmid, Klaus ^a   Broding, Horst Christoph ^a   Uter, Wolfgang ^a   Drexler, Hans ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Apprentice nurses; Epidemiology; Health care workers; Irritant contact dermatitis; Prospective cohort study; Skin bioengineering methods; Transepidermal water loss

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOENGINEERING; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMATITIS; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HAND DERMATITIS; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NURSE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SELF REPORT; SKIN WATER LOSS; SYMPTOM; TRAINING;

ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; DERMATITIS, CONTACT; DERMATITIS, OCCUPATIONAL; FEMALE; HAND DERMATOSES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATCH TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SKIN CARE; STUDENTS, NURSING; WATER LOSS, INSENSIBLE;

EID: 19944383166     PISSN: 01051873     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0105-1873.2005.00557.x     Document Type: Article

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