Klimek, L., Bergmann, K-C, Biedermann, T., Bousquet, J., Hellings, P., Jung, K., Merk, H., Olze, H., Schlenter, W., Stock, P., Ring, J., Wagenmann, M., Wehrmann, W., Moesges, R. and Pfaar, O. (2018). Visual analogue scales (VAS): measuring instruments for the documentation of symptoms and therapy monitoring in cases of allergic rhinitis in everyday health care. Allergologie, 41 (8). S. 364 - 375. DEISENHOFEN-MUENCHEN: DUSTRI-VERLAG DR KARL FEISTLE. ISSN 0344-5062
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Backround: Visual analogue scalcs (VAS) are psychometric measuring instruments designed to document the characteristics of disease-related symptom severity in individual patients and use this to achieve a rapid (statistically measurable and reproducible) classification of symptom severity and disease control. VAS can also be used in routine patient histoiy taking and to monitor the course of a chronic disease such as allergic rhinitis (AR). More specifically the VAS has been used to assess effectiveness of AR therapy in real life, both in intermittent and persistent disease. Methods: This position paper takes a detailed look at the historical development of VAS and its methodspecific principles. Particular focus is put on aspects of practical application in daily routine and on a critical discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of the individual methods. Results: VAS are well validated for the measurement of AR symptoms and correlate well with the ARIA (allergic rhinitis and its impact on asthma) severity classification and also correlated wellwith rTNSS and RQLQ. Moreover, sev eral treatment studies on AR have used VAS as an evaluation parameter. Thanks to the use of new (real-life and real-time) communication technologies, such as smartphone apps. VAS can be used relatively simply and highly effectively to assess disease control. Discussion: The VAS lends itself very well to digitization and has now been incorporated into a smartphone app (called Allergy Diary) to assess AR control and direct treatment decisions as part of an AR clinical decision support sy stem (CDSS). MASK Rhinitis has developed this app, which is currently available in 15 different languages.
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-178958 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| DOI: | 10.5414/ALX02047 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Allergologie | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Volume: | 41 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Number: | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Page Range: | S. 364 - 375 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date: | 2018 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Publisher: | DUSTRI-VERLAG DR KARL FEISTLE | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of Publication: | DEISENHOFEN-MUENCHEN | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ISSN: | 0344-5062 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language: | English | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Faculty: | Unspecified | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Divisions: | Unspecified | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Subjects: | no entry | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Refereed: | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| URI: | http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/17895 |
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