Outcome measures in vitiligo: A narrative review
Vitiligo disease course being unpredictable in course, it is often difficult to monitor the response to therapy. Though there are many outcome measures, there is a lack of uniformity in reporting these across research papers and clinical trials making it challenging to interpret and compare the resu...
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| author | K.B. Meghana Anuradha Bishnoi Davinder Parsad |
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| description | Vitiligo disease course being unpredictable in course, it is often difficult to monitor the response to therapy. Though there are many outcome measures, there is a lack of uniformity in reporting these across research papers and clinical trials making it challenging to interpret and compare the results. It is also important to know what matters to the patients in terms of outcome and to include them in outcome assessment. This review consolidates the available validated outcome measures in assessing vitiligo, their advantages, and limitations. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-06c51ceac5014c928b9216837fb4b2f02025-02-08T05:40:14ZengWolters Kluwer Medknow PublicationsPigment International2349-57822024-12-0111318118910.4103/pigmentinternational_44_24Outcome measures in vitiligo: A narrative reviewK.B. MeghanaAnuradha BishnoiDavinder ParsadVitiligo disease course being unpredictable in course, it is often difficult to monitor the response to therapy. Though there are many outcome measures, there is a lack of uniformity in reporting these across research papers and clinical trials making it challenging to interpret and compare the results. It is also important to know what matters to the patients in terms of outcome and to include them in outcome assessment. This review consolidates the available validated outcome measures in assessing vitiligo, their advantages, and limitations.https://journals.lww.com/10.4103/pigmentinternational_44_24vitiligooutcome measuresstabilityrepigmentation |
| spellingShingle | K.B. Meghana Anuradha Bishnoi Davinder Parsad Outcome measures in vitiligo: A narrative review Pigment International vitiligo outcome measures stability repigmentation |
| title | Outcome measures in vitiligo: A narrative review |
| title_full | Outcome measures in vitiligo: A narrative review |
| title_fullStr | Outcome measures in vitiligo: A narrative review |
| title_full_unstemmed | Outcome measures in vitiligo: A narrative review |
| title_short | Outcome measures in vitiligo: A narrative review |
| title_sort | outcome measures in vitiligo a narrative review |
| topic | vitiligo outcome measures stability repigmentation |
| url | https://journals.lww.com/10.4103/pigmentinternational_44_24 |
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