Visual analogue scale: Evaluation of the instrument for the assessment of pruritus

Acta Dermato-Venereologica

Volumn 92, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 497-501

  Adam, Reich ^a   Heisig, Monika ^a   Phan, Ngoc Quan ^b   Taneda, Kenichi ^c   Takamori, Kenji ^c   Takeuchi, Satoshi ^d   Furue, Masutaka ^d   Blome, Christine ^e   Augustin, Matthias ^e   Ständer, Sonja ^b   Szepietowski, Jacek C ^a,f  

^a WROCLAW MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^f INSTITUTE OF IMMUNOLOGY AND EXPERIMENTAL THERAPY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Itch; Measurement; Pruritus; Validation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CAUCASIAN; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUMERIC RATING SCALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; RATING SCALE; REPRODUCIBILITY; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; VERBAL RATING SCALE; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HUMANS; JAPAN; POLAND; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PRURITUS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84868382281     PISSN: 00015555     EISSN: 16512057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2340/00015555-1265     Document Type: Article

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