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Taking assessment and documentation of clinical relevance one step further – a suggestion to improve individual documentation and epidemiological usability

Full assessment of patients with (occupational) contact dermatitis should ideally include a standardized investigation of irritant exposures in addition to information pertaining to possible allergy guiding the selection of allergens (haptens) to be tested. To develop, implement as a pilot study, and analyse concerning feasibility and contents a new concept of representing a full scope of diagnostic information utilized when diagnosing patients with (occupational) contact dermatitis. Based on a European working group discussion on items to document and catalogue lists to use for this purpose, an online documentation system to collect data was set up, followed by a pilot use involving 9 dermatology departments across Europe. In addition to the benefits for individual documentation, the surveillance of contact dermatitis is expected to be enhanced by the suggested concept, allowing a more in‐depth investigation of profiles of patients at risk for certain allergies, while still serving other well‐proven purposes, eg time trend analyses.

occupational contact dermatitis ; selection of allergen ; individual documentation ; pilot study

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