Assessment of pruritus - Current standards and implications for clinical practice. Consensus paper of the action group pruritus parameter of the international working group on pruritus research (AGP);Erfassung von pruritus - Aktuelle standards und implikationen für die praxis: Konsensuspaper der initiative pruritusparameter der arbeitsgemeinschaft pruritusforschung (AGP)

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Volumn 63, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 521-531

  Stander S ^a   Blome, C ^b   Breil, B ^a   Bruland, P ^a   Darsow, U ^c   Dugas, M ^a   Evers, A ^d   Fritz, F ^a   Metz, M ^e   Phan, N Q ^a   Raap, U ^f   Reich, A ^g   Schneider, G ^a   Steinke, S ^a   Szepietowski, J ^g   Weisshaar, E ^h   Augustin, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^f HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^g WROCLAW MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^h UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Database; Itching; Pruritus; Quality of life; Visual analogue scale

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DEPRESSION; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PATIENT CARE; PREVALENCE; PRURITUS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

DERMATOLOGY; HUMANS; INTERNATIONALITY; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PRURITUS;

EID: 84864334248     PISSN: 00178470     EISSN: 14321173     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00105-011-2318-3     Document Type: Article

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