Cost of illness from occupational hand eczema in Germany

Contact Dermatitis

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 99-106

  Diepgen, Thomas L ^a   Scheidt, Reginald ^a   Weisshaar, Elke ^a   John, Swen M ^b   Hieke, Klaus ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

^c ICON PLC   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

contact dermatitis; costs; economics; hand eczema; occupational skin diseases

Indexed keywords

PIMECROLIMUS; PSORALEN; STEROID; TACROLIMUS;

ABSENTEEISM; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; CONTACT DERMATITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST OF ILLNESS; DERMATOLOGY LIFE QUALITY INDEX; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GERMANY; HAND ECZEMA; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL HAND ECZEMA; OCCUPATIONAL SKIN DISEASE; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; PSORIASIS; PUVA; QUALITY OF LIFE; TREATMENT DURATION; ULTRAVIOLET A RADIATION;

CONTACT DERMATITIS; COSTS; ECONOMICS; HAND ECZEMA; OCCUPATIONAL SKIN DISEASES;

ADULT; COST OF ILLNESS; DERMATITIS, OCCUPATIONAL; DRUG COSTS; ECZEMA; FEMALE; GERMANY; HAND DERMATOSES; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATCH TESTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SICK LEAVE; ULTRAVIOLET THERAPY;

EID: 84880612780     PISSN: 01051873     EISSN: 16000536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cod.12038     Document Type: Article

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