Spoilt for choice - Evaluation of two different scoring systems for early hand eczema in teledermatological examinations

Contact Dermatitis

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 241-247

  Baumeister, Thomas ^a   Weistenhöfer, Wobbeke ^a   Drexler, Hans ^a   Kütting, Birgitta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hand eczema; HECSI; Occupational screenings; OHSI; Scoring systems; Teledermatology

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DISEASE COURSE; HAND ECZEMA; HAND ECZEMA SEVERITY INDEX; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL ECZEMA; OSNABRUCK HAND ECZEMA SEVERITY INDEX; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; SCREENING TEST; SKIN EXAMINATION; TELEDERMATOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DERMATITIS, OCCUPATIONAL; ECZEMA; HAND DERMATOSES; HUMANS; MALE; METALS; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TELEMEDICINE;

EID: 77950484759     PISSN: 01051873     EISSN: 16000536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0536.2010.01703.x     Document Type: Article

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