Evaluating the minimally important difference of the urticaria activity score and other measures of disease activity in patients with chronic idiopathic urticaria

Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 20-24

  Mathias, Susan D ^a   Crosby, Ross D ^a   Zazzali, James L ^b   Maurer, Marcus ^c   Saini, Sarbjit S ^d  

^a Health Outcomes Solutions   (United States)

^b GENENTECH INC   (United States)

^c CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OMALIZUMAB; PLACEBO;

ADD ON THERAPY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC IDIOPATHIC URTICARIA; CHRONIC URTICARIA; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CRONBACH ALPHA COEFFICIENT; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINIMAL IMPORTANT DIFFERENCE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PARALLEL DESIGN; PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; URTICARIA ACTIVITY SCORE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTI-ALLERGIC AGENTS; ANTIBODIES, ANTI-IDIOTYPIC; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL, HUMANIZED; CHRONIC DISEASE; EVALUATION STUDIES AS TOPIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRURITUS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URTICARIA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84355161624     PISSN: 10811206     EISSN: 15344436     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anai.2011.09.008     Document Type: Article

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