Resource Utilization and Quality of Life Associated with Congenital Ichthyoses
| Autor: | Loebat Kamalpour, Bryan Gammon, Kuang-Ho Chen, Michelle Pavlis, Emir Veledar, F.A.A.P. Zakiya P. Rice M.D., Suephy C. Chen |
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| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
Erythema business.industry Hyperkeratosis Dermatology Dermatology Life Quality Index Odds ratio medicine.disease Logistic regression Confidence interval Quality of life Internal medicine Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Physical therapy Medicine Family history medicine.symptom business |
| Zdroj: | Pediatric Dermatology. 28:512-518 |
| ISSN: | 0736-8046 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/j.1525-1470.2011.01432.x |
| Popis: | We explored resource utilization (ResUtil) and quality of life (QOL) associated with congenital ichthyoses (CI). Subjects completed an online survey related to clinical severity, demographics, ResUtil, and QOL as measured according to the Dermatology Life Quality Index (DLQI). Validated Likert scales were used to evaluate severity of hyperkeratosis, erythema, and alopecia. ResUtil was determined according to time spent daily treating CI symptoms (TimeTx) and number of ichthyosis-related dermatology visits (DermVisits) per year. We used linear regression to investigate predictors of a transformed DLQI (sqrtDLQI) and logistic regression for ResUtil. Of 235 subjects, 60.2% were female, 83.8% were Caucasian, 42.3% had a family history (FamHx) of CI, and the mean age was 28.7 years (SD 20.3). Predictors for worse QOL were hyperkeratosis severity (β = 0.27, p |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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