Verbalizing extremes of the visual analogue scale for pruritus: A consensus statement

Acta Dermato-Venereologica

Volumn 93, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 214-215

  Furue, Masutaka ^a   Ebata, Toshiya ^b   Ikoma, Akihiko ^c   Takeuchi, Satoshi ^a   Kataoka, Yoko ^d   Takamori, Kenji ^e   Satoh, Takahiro ^f   Saeki, Hidehisa ^f   Augustin, Matthias ^g   Reich, Adam ^h   Szepietowski, Jacek ^h   Fleischer, Alan ⁱ   Blome, Christine ^g   Phan, Ngoc Quan ^j   Weisshaar, Elke ^k   Yosipovitch, Gil ^l   Ständer, Sonja ^j  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Chitofuna Dermatology Clinic   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d OSAKA PREFECTURAL MEDICAL CENTER FOR RESPIRATORY AND ALLERGIC DISEASES   (Japan)

^e JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f JIKEI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^g UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^h WROCLAW MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

ⁱ WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^k UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^l WAKE FOREST BAPTIST HEALTH   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONSENSUS; LETTER; MEASUREMENT; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RATING SCALE; SLEEP DISORDER; VERBALIZATION; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

COMPREHENSION; CONSENSUS; HUMANS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PRURITUS; SELF REPORT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SLEEP DISORDERS; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84875060587     PISSN: 00015555     EISSN: 16512057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2340/00015555-1446     Document Type: Letter

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