Verma Kaushal K, Bansal Arika, Bhari Neetu, Sethuraman Gomathy
Department of Dermatology and Venereology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
Indian J Dermatol. 2017 Jan-Feb;62(1):85-87. doi: 10.4103/0019-5154.198037.
dermatitis is the most common type of airborne contact dermatitis in India. It is a chronic disease of a remitting and relapsing course with significant morbidity and distress, but there is no scoring system to assess its severity.
To design a scoring system for the assessment of clinical severity of disease in dermatitis and to use this scoring system in various studies to determine its sensitivity, specificity, and reproducibility.
In our first few studies on dermatitis, we designed and used a basic clinical severity scoring system based on itching, morphology of the lesions, and areas involved. However, in subsequent studies, we modified it to the present scoring system as dermatitis severity score (PDSS). Our studies showed the high sensitivity of PDSS in characterization of the disease severity at the given point of time, as well as to determine the efficacy of a prescribed treatment modality which was reliable and reproducible.
Thus, PDSS may be used by clinicians for appropriate scoring of the clinical severity of dermatitis and in monitoring the disease response to therapy.
在印度，皮炎是最常见的气源性接触性皮炎类型。它是一种具有缓解和复发病程的慢性疾病，会导致明显的发病率和痛苦，但尚无评估其严重程度的评分系统。
设计一种用于评估皮炎疾病临床严重程度的评分系统，并在各种研究中使用该评分系统来确定其敏感性、特异性和可重复性。
在我们最初关于皮炎的几项研究中，我们设计并使用了一种基于瘙痒、皮损形态和受累面积的基本临床严重程度评分系统。然而，在随后的研究中，我们将其修改为目前的皮炎严重程度评分（PDSS）系统。我们的研究表明，PDSS在特定时间点表征疾病严重程度以及确定规定治疗方式的疗效方面具有高敏感性，且该评分系统可靠且可重复。
因此，临床医生可使用PDSS对皮炎的临床严重程度进行适当评分，并监测疾病对治疗的反应。
