Patient-reported outcome (PRO) instruments for disease severity and quality of life in patients with atopic dermatitis: a systematic review of English and Chinese literature.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Many patient-reported outcome (PRO) on disease severity quality of life (QOL) have been developed for atopic dermatitis (AD) patients. However, none of them on the reliability and validity of the instruments was sufficient for their application in clinical studies. The objective of this study is to identify and assess the quality of recently developed PROs for disease severity and QOL in English and Chinese in AD patients.

Methods

We conducted a systematic review of PROs for disease severity and QOL for AD from PubMed, Web of Science, PsycINFO and ERIC (English literatures), and CNKI and Wanfang Data (Chinese literatures) from September 2010 to December 2021 with string including "atopic dermatitis" and "scaling". All studies were screened by 2 reviewers. After be

SUBMITTER: Li A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9469158 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature