Measurement of itching: Validation of the Leuven Itch Scale

Burns

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 939-950

  Haest, Chris ^a   Casaer, Michaël P ^b   Daems, Annick ^a   De Vos, Bea ^a   Vermeersch, Els ^a   Morren, Marie Anne ^b   Van Steenbergen, Werner ^b   Ceuppens, Jan L ^b   Moons, Philip ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Itch; Measurement; Pruritus (Mesh); Psychometrics (Mesh)

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; BURN; CHILD; CHRONIC URTICARIA; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; LEUVEN ITCH SCALE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; PRURITUS; RATING SCALE; SCHOOL CHILD; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; BURNS; CHRONIC DISEASE; DERMATITIS, ATOPIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRURITUS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; URTICARIA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80051475545     PISSN: 03054179     EISSN: 18791409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.burns.2011.04.007     Document Type: Article

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