Patients’ Visual Analogue Scale: A Useful Method for Assessing Psoriasis Severity
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Patients' visual analogue scale: a useful method for assessing psoriasis severity.
The quality of life of patients with psoriasis can be severely diminished. The disease often affects life at a physical, social and emotional level (1). In clinical studies, a wide variety of assessment tools is used to evaluate the severity of psoriasis, but there is a lack of standardization (2). The introduction of quality of life (QoL) instruments has improved psoriasis evaluation, but ther...
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عنوان ژورنال: Acta Dermato Venereologica
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0001-5555
DOI: 10.2340/00015555-1237