The Quality of Life in hand eczema questionnaire: validation of a new assessment instrument
Ofenloch, R.; Diepgen, T.; Weisshaar, E.; Apfelbacher, C. · Das Gesundheitswesen · 2013 · Heft 8/09 · S. 1 bis 1
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Background: Health related Quality of Life (HRQOL) is a patient reported outcome (PRO) used to evaluate clinical trials in various diseases. Health economic decisions are often based on HRQOL data, especially where the disease of interest is a chronic non life-threatening condition. Since there is no disease-specific HRQOL instrument to assess the impairments of patients with hand eczema (HE) we set out to develop an instrument to assess HE-specific HRQOL. The development process was done in an international group in order to receive an instrument which works in a culturally equivalent manner in different countr…